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[photograph of students sitting on a bank]

frogs, watersnakes and like
denizens of the brook found
safety elsewhere.
Two ultra modest ladies forebore
the pleasure of bare feet
and cooling waters and showed
their depreciation of the sport by
carrying away and hiding the
shoes and stockings of their
wading companions. But they
soon came to grief for the
waders quickly surrounded
them, dragged them to the
water's edge, divested them of
shoes, stockings and modesty
and pushed them in where
they remained until duly
punished.
The lengthening shadows