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Updated: May 7, 2025
It was emphatically a quiet place, with its few neat lodging-houses and humble shops, one solitary bathing-machine, and a couple of pleasure boats now hauled up high and dry.
We launched the canoe, but although it was carefully hollowed out, the wood was so heavy that it would only carry one person, and even then it threatened to become a bathing-machine; thus nine days' hard work are lost. Florian is in despair, but 'Nil desperandum! I shall set to work instanter, and make a raft. Counted twenty-eight giraffes on the opposite side of the river. "August 17.
'Up you get, said the clown, and Jimmy scrambled up a pair of wide steps which put him in mind of a bathing-machine. The door seemed to be made in halves, and whilst the lower part was shut the upper part was open. Through this Jimmy could see inside the van, and it looked exactly like a small room, only rather dirty and untidy.
The pleasant feel of the warm salt water on her legs inspired Pollyooly with larger desires. She put on her shoes and stockings and came back to the esplanade. She soon learned that a bathing-dress and a bathing-machine could be hired. She hired them and bathed. She bathed for a long time, a longer time than was good for her.
His only trouble is that no day is long enough. He'd forget the dimensions of the bathing-machine it would become to him a beautiful house like this." "What a wonderful thing love is!" Hadassah said to herself, as she watched Margaret's eyes glow and shine. Her thoughts had transformed her. "A wonderful and beautiful thing! Whatever would the world be without it?
But, a `Deus ex machina, or `God from the bathing-machine, as our old captain of the Saint Vincent would have said in his Latin lingo, just then intervened on our behalf.
Fred was as anxious to have a dip as his cousins; and as the tide was coming in, and the water as smooth as possible, Mr Inglis gave his consent, and stopped upon the sands while the boys all jumped into the bathing-machine; and the old horse being fastened to it, they were dragged a short distance into the water, and there left.
Mr Bunker laughed with reminiscent amusement, and inquired, “And how did the romance end—in a cab, Baron?” “Ha, ha, ha!” laughed the Baron; “better zan zat, Bonker—moch better!” Mr Bunker raised his eyebrows. “It’s hardly the time of year for a romance to end in a bathing-machine. You followed the divinity to her rented heaven, perhaps?”
This was such a masterpiece in its way that it is worth pausing a moment to describe. Suddenly the door of her bathing-machine, which has been drawn just to the water's edge, is flung open, and she appears on the threshold, wrapped in a white sheet with a red border, producing a toga-like effect not ungraceful.
There were five other tricks on the programme all of which were world renowned. They were "The Floating Head"; "The Mango Seed"; "The Haunted Bathing-machine," "The Girl with the Five Eyes," and "The Vanishing Bicycle" illusion.
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