| Show SE k meduse in the heated waters of the troi trot tropics no voyager bilt but must have been struck with acs the midnight track of the ploughing sloughing hing ship through whole fields of floating stare stars the vessel like some bratic cornet broke loose lowe frota frola the reins relna of its governing seraph fairly shattering whole systems and the voyager gazes on the dot dut destruction ruction from the tan ail all or high stern of the vessel like an angel from high heaven down into the deep deep blue blu vast erast below awed with the khoii thoughts s which crowd upon him above around and below one vast g globe 4 obe ot of blue intensity above nothing but god and the stars stare around and below the deep dee deep waters down into which you gazel gaza ai as if the i e round world were svere glass following with your eye the glowing light of the startled and sinking medusa down down till you yon hold on from going overboard when fished up by means of a hand net and placed in in a large babin basin of seawater sea water they appear p ear inthe in the daylight mere round bubbles of the size of a glass paper weight i heir shape that of or a parachute with ion lon long iong g twining streamers streamers from the point of each whalebone and around all a fringe of a changing chan color olor like that pendant from a dainty ladya parasol when in motion they steam round the basin just like a parasol flutter fluttering ilIg against the wila polut point ri i ut first opening and shutting as they urge themselves alion along the slender neck towing behind in in the shape and position of the handle this neck is a proboscis by means they can cah suck up un crumbs of bread thrown throws into the basin and you see it pass pas down the tender neck like a cork down an eau ean de cologne bottle their colors vary in liln some the parasol part is blue litie the fringe pink the neck pale mure others are ink with ahe the fringe varying in depth e th 0 of f t tone r almost a all au having the fringe of alitzer a different eritta shade hid e or color to the body when one falls within the suction of 0 another getting as it were within the parasol pa the fortunate grasper draws all the color in a few minutes out of his passive attim but when parted and the victim pale as blanc manger is allowed to settle upon tic tie the fic deep colored conr mond the colors with the tables rapidly change places the pale emaciated victim now dominant swelling out and deepening dee penin in color and his hia bloated prisoner dwindling in itis his turn I 1 to the wane image of distress I 1 when taken into a dark place and moved with a stick spinning them round and d turning t arni them over they immediately fill the whole whid 1 basin with light sufficient to view hew distinctly its pattern when taken out of the basin by the hand and bowled along the deck of the night they glow like round balls of molten metal mehal 12 b bat but u t they justly retaliate by stinging smartly Y the hand which throws them cx ez |
