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Honey called finally

The men looked seawards Then, simultaneously they leaped to their feet

The see, white, elared from the sky It made a melted moonstone of

the atray, just touched

here and there with the chalky dot of a star It slashed a silver trail

across a sea jet-black except where the waves rimmed it with snow Up in

the white enchante air-creatures

were flying They were not birds; they inged wo, they interwove in what

seeures of an aerial dance If they were

conscious of the group of men on the beach, they did not show it; they

sees, like enorht, flashed it back For an interval, they

played close in a group inextricably intertwined, a revolving ball of

vivid color Then, as if seized by a common impulse, they stretched,

hand in hand, in a line across the sky-drifted The lea-tips, sent cataracts of iridescent color pulsing

between Snow-silver one, brilliant green and gold another, dazzling

blue the next, luo scarlet the

last, their colors seeure would flare into a splendid blaze, as if an inner mechanism had

suddenly turned on all the electricity; the next, the blaze died down to

the fairy glisten given by the ht