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Show PETER TOOK PRECAUTIONS. But His Explanation Was Somewhat Unexpected, if Not Reassuring. At one of the big seaside resorts a young lady had occasion to complain of a bathing machine attendant, an old fellow, who, in the hurry of cleaning clean-ing up, would sometimes burst in upon her without knocking. One morning, after this had happened happen-ed for the third or fourth time, the young lady toon the old fellow to task. "Look here, Peter," she said, "1 must Insist on your knocking before you enter. It hasn't happened yet, but It might very well happen, that you'd come In on me when I was all undressed." Peter, with a chuckle, hastened to reassure the young lady on this point "No fear of that, miss," he said. "No fear of that. There's a knothole in the floor that I always look through before I come in." |