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Oh no: he comes to Devonshire and Cornwall with the mackerel, as he has come here; and in calm weather he will swim on the top of the water, and play about, and catch flies, and stand bolt upright with his long nose in the air; and when the fisher-boys throw him a stick, he will jump over it again and again, and play with it in the most ridiculous way. And what will they do with him?
One morning, hard at work in his chamber, where only the confused roar of the city was audible, a strain rose high and clear above it all, with a soft, pathetic, penetrating urgency, "So' marinaro di questa marina," and, all else forgotten, he was once more rocking on Italian waters, and the red-capped fisher-boys filled the air with song.
The farmer-boys were allowed no share in all this excitement, for the fisher-boys, who went in and out and saw everything, drove them away if they approached and sold meagre information at extortionate prices. The boat had met a Finnish schooner drifting in the sea, covered with ice, and with frozen rudder.
"I'm not sure well, yes, I think I have heard of that house," said Kate, "though we are not in the way of hearing much about the commercial houses of London." "Well," continued Billy, "that house sends hundreds of fisher-boys as messengers.
Come when the inclination whispers 'I want to be with friends." He pressed her hand. "Shall I see Peppina?" "Chi lo sa?" "And Ruffo?" She laughed. "The Marchesino, too, perhaps." "No," said Artois, emphatically. "Disfigured girls and fisher-boys as many as you like, but not the alta aristocrazia Napoletana." "But I thought " "I like Doro, but I like him in his place." "And his place?"
About sunset a gentle shower, the first of the season, caused the fisher-boys to dance with joy; it lasted two good hours, and then it was dispersed by a strong westerly breeze. Canoes and lights flashed before our eyes during half the night; and wild beasts, answering one another from rock to rock, hundreds of feet above us, added a savage, African feature to the goodly mise-en-scene.
The young girls of that time have now become mothers, and sometimes tell their little ones of the Flower of Praousta and her death, as of a fairy tale of the olden time. It has become a fairy-tale, and has been written in verses which the fisher-boys sing when they go out upon the waves.
"The soldiers by that time will have got tired of looking for us, and if any persons from the top of the cliffs see us they won't know who we are, and will fancy we are fisher-boys getting bait. Perhaps before that time a smuggling lugger may come off here, and we may manage to hail her before we run short of food; at all events, there's no use being frightened about what may happen."
For some minutes before this, as the light grew clearer and the fog lifted a little, Frank Harley had been watching them from the rail of the "Prudhomme," and wondering if all the fisher-boys in America dressed as well as these two. "Hullo, you!" was the greeting which now came to his ears. "Go ashore in my boat?" "Not till I've eaten some of your fish for breakfast," said Frank.
As a child I had been neglected for the firstborn, I had enjoyed through this neglect an absolute freedom with regard to associating with fisher-boys and all the shoeless, hatless 'sea-pups' of the sands, and now, when the time had come to civilise me, my mother had found that it was too late. I was bohemian to the core.
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