THOSE DIVING BELLES! THOSE DIVING BELLES!

Some of our contemporaries have been dreadfully scandalised at the

indelicate scenes which take place on the sands at Ramsgate, where, it

seems, a sort of joint-stock social bathing company has been formed by the

duckers and divers of both sexes. Situations for obtaining favourable

views are anxiously sought after by elderly gentlemen, by whom opera

glasses and pocket telescopes are much patronised. Greatly as we admire

the investigation of nature in her unadorned simplicity, Ramsgate would be

the last place we should select, if we were

[Illustration: GOING DOWN TO A WATERING PLACE.]

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