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Updated: July 24, 2025
He pointed dramatically across the street many times and fell back, tears running down his face. There was a salmon in the pond, rising short at a cloud of midges to the tune of Yip-i-addy; but there was none to gaff him. The swing-boats were empty, cocoa-nuts sat still on their red sticks before white screens, and the gay-painted horses of the giddy-go-rounds revolved riderless.
He returned to Mandy Ann's side and fell to gnawing philosophically at the carrot which she thrust under his nose. This care removed, Mandy Ann took an irregular bundle out of the basket. It was tied up in a blue-and-white handkerchief. Untying it with extreme care, as if the contents were peculiarly precious, she displayed a collection of fragments of many-coloured glass and gay-painted china.
That flesh we had nursed from the first in all cleanness was given To corruption unveiled and assailed by the malice of Heaven By the heart-shaking jests of Decay where it lolled on the wires To be blanched or gay-painted by fumes to be cindered by fires To be senselessly tossed and retossed in stale mutilation From crater to crater. For this we shall take expiation.
She did not stop to read Laura Ann's gay-painted "Compact" on the screen door. It might even have been noticed, if anyone cared to notice, that she did not look at it, that she hurried a little through the door, as if to avoid it. Old '61 was waiting at the gate. She smiled at the eager invitation she read in his face.
In summer time, an Aeolian harp can be placed in your window at a very trifling expense; a conch-shell might stand on your mantel, to be taken up and held to the ear, that you may be soothed by its continual lulling sound, when you feel the blue fit stealing over you. For sights, a gay-painted punch-bowl, or Dutch tankard never mind about filling it might be recommended.
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