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Show HE WAS GIVEN A FORCIBLE BATH. ' ll Calllcoon, N V Twelve shirts woro peeled from the wriggling body of Obadlab Osterhout, a backsliding policeman, po-liceman, when a "cltlsena' protective committee" formed for the purposo forcibly washed blm In the crystal current cur-rent of Calllcoon creek the other day. Obadlab bad a horrible habit of avoiding tbo sight of water. When one shirt got too dirty he slipped another an-other more or less clean over It, rather than exert himself to remove the first. This and his pronounced aversion to the ceremony ot personal ablution proved fatal to Obadlab. Hit pretenco bervaded tbe neighborhood and permeated perme-ated tbo wind There was never any doubt when Obadlah was approaching As the hot weather came on be grew more and mors unmistakable. A grievance committee called on ffal Obadlah and urged him for the good of H tho community to reform and wash. H Obadlah responded wllh threats of ar- SU rest and dire punishment for anyone WJ who Interfered with blm, and contln- Mji ued to air himself iJD A prolectlvo mreting of the cltltent H was called and a strong commltteo was JKL appointed to carry out the edict agnlntt JH Obadlah. The erring ex-policeman )H was plunged seven times, and yet an- , other seven, In the creek The shirts H wero separated from his body and ,' "iH burned, far away from human bmblta- H tlon. The men was wrung out and dried. Then he wat Informed that tht M certmeay would be repeated as often u necessary. H Obadlab yroralsed to behave. JH J sHsHjHHHH |
