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The hen is content with a gown of this style throughout her life. Not so the cock. No sooner does he reach the years of discretion than he assumes a magnificent caudal appendage. His two middle tail feathers suddenly begin to grow, and go on growing till they become three or four times as long as he is, and so flutter behind him in the wind like streamers when he flies.
Consequently the ships belonging to Dutch and American lines had their names painted with large lettering along their sides. At night, streamers of electric lights were hung over the sides to illuminate these letterings; and on the decks of many of the neutral ships their names and nationalities were painted in large letters so that they might be identified by aircraft.
Excursion boats, fluttering gay streamers, worked sturdily up the stream. Little yachts, in fresh-laundered suits of canvas, darted across their bows or slanted in their wakes, looking like white butterflies. The vivid blue of the sky was flecked with bits of broken fleece, scurrying like the yachts below.
Sometimes a light pole or staff is introduced, to the top of which are attached long streamers of different coloured ribbons. A lady takes one of these to several of her fair companions in turn, each of whom chooses a ribbon, and, holding it firmly in her hand, follows the leading lady to the room.
A fairer apparition I have seldom seen, stately, pale, and fragile as a lily blond hair, that rippled round a forehead of ivory a cheek of waxen purity on which the fitful colour went and came not with the flush of southern blood, or flower-bloom of English beauty, but rather with a cool radiance, as of "northern streamers" on the snows of her native hills, eyes of a dusky blue, and lips of that rare tint which lines the conch-shell.
Hanging obliquely from his girdle by a loop of sinnate, was a richly-decorated pipe; the slender reed forming its stem was coloured with a red pigment, and round it, as well as the idol-bowl, fluttered little streamers of the thinnest tappa. But that which was most remarkable in the appearance of this splendid islander, was the elaborate tattooing displayed on every noble limb.
"There is a sail-boat now," exclaimed Mellen, pointing across the bay. Elizabeth looked and saw the tiny streamers shining like silver traceries in the sun. "It must be Elsie," she said, bringing a glass from the hall, which Mr. Mellen took eagerly from her hand. "Yes," he said. "I can see a woman in the boat it is Elsie."
I appropriated four of the largest masks and a quantity of oakum for wigs; some colored-paper streamers and hat-frills; two huge and disreputable dresses Mrs. Kosminsky's own, I suspected the skirts of which I crammed with straw from a hamper; two large-sized and ragged suits of clothes, a woman's straw hat, four pairs of men's gloves and the biggest top-hat that I could find.
The blaze dove into a deep hollow, climbed the slope beyond, leaped exultantly and bellowed its challenge. And, of a sudden, dark forms sprang upon it and beat it cruelly, and it went black where they struck, and only thin streamers of smoke told where it had been.
And above, parti-colored pennants and streamers, surmounted by the royal ensign of England, waved and fluttered in the brisk wind. At either end of the lists stood the pavilions of the knights. Myles, partly armed, stood at the door-way of the pavilion, watching the folk gathering at the scaffolding.
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