Show WHERE WATER IS SC SCARCE Miss Flora Shaw the well known correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent t of the London Times was once traveling through Africa in a bullock bullock bullock bul bul- lock wagon The sun was blazing the bullocks w were re slow the dust was fade inde She was making for a frontier frontier frontier fron fron- tier town where she anticipated the comforts of a bath At the entrance to the place Miss Shaw dead beat dusty and in n found herself confronted with the ordeal of a public reception The officials read her a welcome she was as civil as she could be bej bethen then she bolted for the hotel She gave but one order Hot water quick She sat on the edge of the bed and waited Some minutes passed At last a black servant servant servant ser ser- vant entered with writh a tin vessel ia in which there was something steaming Seizing it Miss Shaw poured out a milky odoriferous odoriferous odor odor- liquid She turned to the servant servant ser ser- vant for an explanation The hotel was very short of water as a distinguished guest a point had been stretched for her They had sent her the water In which the fish had just been boiled boiled boiled- New York Tribune |