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There was a very large arrival of fish that morning; the tray-like baskets were covered with rippling silver, and the auction rooms roared with the hubbub of their sales.
Near it set a tray-like plate of the same ware and decoration. "If you'll lift it down, please, yourself," motioned Mrs. Greggory. "I don't like to with these," she explained, tapping the crutches at her side. With fingers that were almost reverent in their appreciation, the collector reached for the teapot. His eyes sparkled. "Billy, look, what a beauty!
In the 'tap' of an evening you might see the labourers playing at 'chuck-board, which consists in casting a small square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray-like box placed on the trestle-table. The lead, being heavy, would stay where it fell; the rules I do not know, but the scene reminded me of the tric-trac contests depicted by the old Dutch painters.
When you add to these many charms, those mild eyes, surcharged with love light, and a bark as sweet as the bark of the frangipanni tree and as cheerful as the song of the meadow-lark, you may realize some of the estimable qualities that distinguished Little Wanderobo Dog. For some weeks he stayed with us, Tray-like in his faithfulness, and always in the vanguard when danger threatened the rear.
And when the large tray-like baskets were all set out, Florent could almost fancy that a whole shoal of fish had got stranded there, still quivering with life, and gleaming with rosy nacre, scarlet coral, and milky pearl, all the soft, pale, sheeny hues of the ocean.
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