Got Their Clothes Mixed

Mark Twaln; In hu book called Trampa Abrqad, tellshow a party of tourists got wet, int) what they did when tliey got back to tlie liotel: ' We Btrippedand went tobed and sent our clothes down to be bakcd. All the board of soaked tourists did tlie sume. That chaos of clotliing got mixed In the kitchen, and tliere rere consequences. I did notget the same drawers that 1 sent down, wheu our thins cainc up it (i:Io; I got a pair on a new plan. They werc mercly a pair of white rutile cuiled absurdities, hitched togetl.erat the top with a narrow band, and they did not come down quite to niy knees. They were prttty enough, but they mude me teel like twopeople, and disconnected at that. The man must have been an idiot that got himself up like that, to roiiirli it in the Swiss mountains. The shirt they brought me was shoiter than the drawers, and hadn't any sleeves to it- at least it hadu't anytuing more tlian what Mr. Darwin fvould cali "riidimeiitary" sleeves; these liad eijdofc around them, but the bosom was ridiculously plain. Theknitsilk undenbirt they brought me was on a new plan, and was really i sensible tliing; it opeued bcliiud, and hiul poekets in it to put your shoulder blades in; but they did not seem to tit mine, and so I found it a soit of uncoaifortable garment. They gave niy bobtail coat to somebody eise, and sent mean ulster suitable fur a girarle. 1 had to tie niy collar on, beeause tliere was no button behind on that foolish little shirt which I described a little while ago. Wheu I Aras dressed for dinner at 6:30 I was too loóse in souie places and too tight in otheis, and altogethor I feit sloven and ill condltioned. However the people at the table d'hote were no bctlcr oll' than I was; they liad everyboilv'.ülothes on but their own. A taíl ! ({er recojítiizcd his ulster as toon as be saw tlie tal] of it lollow me in, but nobody claimed my shiit or my draucr-, though 1 described thim as well as I wal able. I gave them to the chambermaid that Dijtht when I went to bed, and (be probably found the owner, for my own Ulloga were on a chair outside my door , the next mornlng. There was a lovable English clergyman who did not getto the table d'hote at all. His breeches had turued up missing and without any equivalent. He said inwas not more particular than other people, but he had noticed that a clei-gyman al dinner without any breeches wa a'lmost ¦Ure to excite reiniirk.