10. FRIGHTS 



Frights are two-legged fish. When a lady who 

 is walking down to a boat with the Intention of 

 hiring it hears one fisherman call out to another: 

 'Dick, there's a fright for thee there!' she Is apt 

 to look a httle startled. It has to be explained to 

 her that fright is a way of pronouncing freight. 

 But I don't think most ladles like It, after that. 



The movements of visitors are so mysterious, 

 and yet so regular, that were they not human 

 beings, more or less accountable for their actions, 

 we should certainly say that their comings and 

 goings were as purely a matter of Instinct as the 

 migrations of birds and fish. Once we had an 

 archbishop staying here. He used to come out 

 and take the sea-air about noon. Straightway, it 

 seemed, from every side-street and almost every 

 house, would appear a clergyman, and as the 

 archbishop promenaded so they would promenade 



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