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[B]Throughout the late spring and early summer of 1937, Jane continued her adventures by the seaside, continuing to have more and more embarrassing situations in the bargain (Jane's little dog Fritz gets into a fight with another dog over Jane's dress; she ends up leaving the scene in tatters; Jane shows off her new beach wrap to her friends, but neglects to put on her bathing suit underneath; Jane puts on her daring new swimsuit upside-down, etc.)...but the ultimate embarrassment was just around the corner.

In early August of 1937, Jane and Fritz take a hiking trip through the English countryside (not the first time she's done this; she took a similar excursion in 1935), encountering a number of increasingly comical eccentrics along the way.

On Saturday, 28 August 1937, The Daily Mirror published for the first (but not last) time, a full-page Jane's Journal episode, titled "She Goes Nudist" (fig. 4), in which Our Jane, for the very first time, strips off ALL HER CLOTHES in the woods to take a bath...and has her clothes promptly stolen by an escaped convict. Completely and utterly naked, our Jane dons a discarded newspaper (possibly the Mirror), and tries to infiltrate a nearby nudist colony, only to be barred from entry for "cheating", after which, in an episode printed on the opposite page (fig. 5), she is just as promptly arrested by the local cops.

Th flood gates were open, ladiers and gentlemen, and thank the Lord for Norman Pett for turning the valve!![B]