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THE FISHES AND NEWTS. 107
great number of human faces were gathered
all around, and they were laughing and talking,
though I could not hear what they said, and
they were drinking red water out of little
hollow icicles, and the more they drank the
merrier they seemed to become. The ladies
had flowers twined in their hair, and placed on
one shoulder, and beautifully glittering little
dewdrops hung in clusters from their ears,
and some of the gentlemen had even
borrowed stars from the firmament and stuck them
on their black coats. It was such an assemblage
as none of you fishes ever can see, for you have
no chance of being introduced into such
company until you are boiled or stewed. At last
one of the gentlemen took me from my mossy
lair, and handed me to all who were seated
around, what to me appeared a beautiful
flowery bank, where fruits and eatables lay
scattered on shells and leaves, and all
looked as if the sun and the moon had each
bepainted everything, trying to outshine one
another."
" And you allowed yourself to be handed
round ? " says the perch. " Why did you not
glide out of their hands ? "
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