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Updated: July 1, 2025
"Oh, well, if the little darlings are not accustomed to chivalry from men," Pete Murphy was in the meantime saying, "that explains why they stand us off." It was typical of Pete to refer to the flying-girls as "little darlings." The shortest among them was, of course, taller than he.
Was it certain that she was making for a distant tree-top, an unexpected drop would land her a few feet from their group. She was the only one of the flying-girls who touched the earth. And she always led up to this feat as to the climax of what Honey called her "act." She would drop to the very ground, pose there, wavering like an enormous butterfly, her great wings opening and shutting.
He seemed determined to give, in an alien element, an exhibition which would equal that of the flying-girls. The effect on them was immediate; they broke ranks and floated, watching every move. To hold their interest, Honey nearly turned himself inside out. At first he tore the water white with the vigor of his trudgeon-stroke. Then turning from left to right, he employed the side-stroke.
Stay a little longer and we'll buy you a dinner and a taxicab." Apparently the flying-girls realized that he was addressing them. For a hair's breadth of a second they paused. Then, with a speed that had a suggestion of panic in it, they flew out to sea. And again a flood of girl-laughter fell in bubbles upon them. "They distrust muh!" Honey commented.
It was a long time before they saw any of them; but, curiously enough, the next time the flying-girls visited the island they came in a group. It had been sultry, the first of a long series of sticky, muggy days. What threatened to be a thunderstorm and then, as Honey said, failed to "make good," came up in the afternoon. Just as the sky was at its blackest, Honey called, "Hurroo! Here they come!"
Lulu dropped her mirror. It hit square and shattered on the sand to many brilliant splinters. Lulu fell like a stone, seized the empty frame, gazed into it for a heart-broken second, burst into tears. It was the first time that the men as a group had ever seen in the flying-girls an exhibition of this feminine faculty.
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