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To lines and curves and masses and their relations in composition, succeeds as material for inspiration and reproduction the varied spectacle of the external world. With the early romanticists it may be said that for the first time the external world "swims into" the painter's "ken."
"What's that?" cried the King, in a startled voice, sitting up, but falling back with a groan. "Oh, how my head swims! Can you swim, Denis, boy?" he moaned. "Yes, sir; but no one could swim in a sea like this." Boomp! Crash! Rush! "What's that, boy?" groaned the King again. "Why don't you tell me? Didn't I ask before?"
Its jaws narrow forward to almost a point indeed, the lower one does so; and thus, as it swims along, like the stem of a ship, it serves to divide the water wedge, parting to make way for its huge body the blunt snout being all the time like the lofty forecastle of an old-fashioned ship, clear of the waves high up above it.
'Don't you know? said Cherry; 'a beautiful bright little fish, and the good male one swims up and down taking care of the nest. 'I do like the beaver, allowed Wilmet. 'It always was my favourite beast. 'It hits off the respectable householder element, added Edgar. 'Three flaps of his broad tail rule beaverdom like Jupiter's nod. 'I have one, interposed Robina.
The author who aspires to write fiction should cultivate the faculty of caring for all things that come to pass; he should train himself rigorously never to be bored; he should look upon all life that swims into his ken with curious and sympathetic eyes, remembering always that sympathy is a deeper faculty than curiosity: and because of the profound joy of his interest in life, he should endeavor humbly to earn that heritage of interest by developing a thorough understanding of its source.
But it is, hard work and scarcely worth the risk. An Exciting Swim. Last year at the foot of the Red Canyon Trail, I had two most delightful swims one on the night of the arrival of our party, the other by starlight next morning.
He is one of the most beautiful of the inhabitants of the deep, and presents a singularly striking and captivating appearance, as, clad in gorgeous array, he moves gracefully through the water. He usually swims near the surface, and when in pursuit of a flying-fish shoots along with inconceivable velocity.
In this business it occupies most of the hours of darkness; but at daybreak, it swims back to the place where it entered the water, and going out, takes the `backtrack' to its lair, where it sleeps until sunset again warns it forth. "Sometimes during rain, it leaves its den even at midday.
It began in the swimming pool at Glen Ellen. Between swims it was our wont to come out and lie in the sand and let our skins breathe the warm air and soak in the sunshine. Roscoe was a yachtsman. I had followed the sea a bit. It was inevitable that we should talk about boats. We talked about small boats, and the seaworthiness of small boats.
"We will soon have the hut up again, and make it a little bigger the next time." "That's the spirit I like, lads," observed the boatswain. "Never strike your flag while the ship swims. That's the motto for English seamen; and I hope, lads, you will always stick to it. Now, Paul, just; give us a stave; we have not heard your sweet voice all the night.
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