h-ah-ah

Updated: May 10, 2025

As the cool element embraces his loins, he "h-ah-ah!" gasps, as every bather knows how; but the shock to his system is nothing compared with the aggravation to his feelings when he hears the joyful yell of triumph that issues from the brazen lungs of his youngest hope. "Never mind, I'll work all the better now come, let us be jolly, and clear out the rest of the pool."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication