~What the Wild Waves Said.~ Do you hear the ocean moaning, Ever moaning sad and low? 'Tis because that fat old bather Stepped upon its undertow.

" She had been so eager to make her sacrifice and get it over that she hurried inconsiderately to the brink,then, like a timid bather, stopped short, hesitatingthe water looked so cold and dark and deep.

As I glanced over the figures nearest to me, I discovered floating among the indifferent bathers two dead bodies, which had either been drowned in the confusion, or had purposely come to die on the edge of the sacred tank; the cool and apathetic survivors taking not the slightest notice of their soulless neighbours.

Lamb had gone for a surgeon; the maid was running about distraught, with dry clothes on one arm, and the dripping habiliments of the involuntary bather in the other.

The next morning I crossed the river, teeming with joyous bathers, to Santa Cruz, and hired a boat there to take me across the lake to Pasig, and from thence to Manila.

"You would scarcely suppose," he continued, turning to me, "that there are men hereregular habitués of the bathwho never go into the water, and yet give themselves all the airs of practised bathers.

The bathing-master had been nearly exhausted when he reached the shore the second time, but he had rallied his strength and had swum out to the boat which was pulling about the place where the unfortunate bathers had been swimming.

The Baths of Diocletian, erected in the 4th century, were 6,000 feet in perimeter and its number of daily bathers were 3,000.

A poisonous slime covers the spike, causing great pain to the unlucky bather.

Beyond his uncle's farm ran the far-famed Otter Creek, whose waters, in my boyhood, were forbidden me, as inevitably leading the incautious bather to "a life of misery and a premature death."