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Red and gold and green and blue flecks of confetti were glimmering like fishscales over her black wrap and were even entangled drolly in the absurd lengths of her eye-lashes. "It is if I have not forgotten how to dance," she murmured. "If it is a waltz, perhaps " It was a waltz. Ryder had an odd impression of her irresolution before, with strange eagerness, he swept her into the music.
"Down to my kayah, Tommy Fishscales." "Is there any fish to-day?" "A few, they say, but there is lots of seals plenty of 'em on the rocks in the bay." "All right; bring home something to your friend, Tommy." Sammy pushed off his kayah from shore. It was a funny sort of boat, according to our notions.
His house was still there, sitting at the end of Elm Street, at the end of town, on the edge of the prairie. It was a very old house. It was decorated with gingerboard, a rusted-out tin rooster-comb running the peak of the roof and stained glass window transoms; and the top of the house was joined to the ground floor by lapped fishscales, as though it was a mermaid instead of a house.
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