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THE FISHES AND NEWTS. 105
Look ! all the little fishes wag their funny
tails in appreciation of the story, their mouths
and gills are all quickly moving, seemingly
expressing their favourable opinion as they
move about quite briskly. One of the newts
which from one of the jutting crags of the
miniature submarine mountain has been
listening to the story, now paddles quickly
amongst his friends, the fishes, and I fancy
he means to say: "Now if you will gather
round me, I will tell you an incident of my
life," and as he climbs up on the slimy rock,
to where he had previously been listening,
he begins thus :—
" I lived in a little stream that slowly
coursed through a wood. It was winter,
and I crawled up on a bank to bask in a
little sunshine that kindly came down to the
earth that day to cheer us in the dull and
dormant season. The sunbeams kissed me,
and threw a golden shimmer over my green
coat; and as I lay mirroring my own beauty
in the tranquil waters, I thought it turned itself
into a sheet of ice, being so anxious to retain
my image, and that it requested the sunbeams
to lull me to sleep, that it might gaze all the
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