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and smelling the dinner, snatched the parcel and made 

 off with it. When the man came out of the water he 

 had no clothes left but the covering for his lower 

 extremities. He called loudly, till at last some one 

 came to his assistance. 



When he told of the affair to some of his friends, 

 they said, "Now, John, you could not find any Scripture 

 for such an experience as that." 



" Oh," he said, " I think there must be." 

 He was answered that it was quite impossible ; 

 there could not be anything in the Bible that was 

 anything like that. " Well," said he, " let me think a 

 little O, I have it 'And Asher continued on the 

 sea shore, and abode in his breaches' (breeches)." 

 Song of Deborah, in the Book of Judges. 



