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ocean where it was shallow, rolled down my long 

 woollen stockings, took off my sailor's slippers, 

 rolled a stone on the stockings and shoes to keep 

 them from heing washed awa}' and walked bare- 

 footed in my knickerbockers to my cottage. There 

 was no cause for me to remember the incident but 

 the serious yet comical consequence to my comrade. 



I did not again see my friend while I was on 

 the coast of JNIaine. The word was passed around 

 that he was sick and would not see anyone, and it 

 was not until I met him in Xew York that I learned 

 why he had denied himself to all visitors. While 

 sitting on the bunk in the fishermen's shanty the 

 poor fellow's clothing had become alive with, — well 

 with P'ig. 254, and as he had never had any ex- 

 perience in this line before he did not know the 

 cause of his trouble until he was covered with an 

 army of Fig. 254's, and when he discovered them 

 he was ashamed to tell anyone of his plight. He 

 had a most serious time ridding himself of these 

 pests, for they got into his trunk, his bed and the 

 furniture of his room before he discovered them. 



Another gentleman I knew, a dignified, wealthy 

 New York manufacturer, had the same misfoi-- 

 tune happen to him while sleeping on a public 



