| Show A west indian goldsmith the nude bade limbed smith enters noiselessly as a spectre squats down upon his bis little mat before his little anvil an v 11 and turns inquiringly inqui riny toward us a la lace ee half veiled by a black beard austere regular r an and w withal a 8 slightly g unpleasant in expression 11 vie le beras ras 11 observes my y creole river driver pointing to Ms his client the he curb ed a smith th lit ailts lilts his bis voice utters the single syllable 11 ra lla and folds his arms f almost immediately a young woman responds ands to the call enters squats down on n the earthen floor at the furr ther end of the bench and aad turns upon me a pair bair of the largest black e yes eyes I 1 have ever seen she is very aim simply 1 p 1 clad in a coolie robe leaving arms s and 1 ankles bare and clinging clinding about the figure in gracious folds her color is a clear bright bronze new mew bronze her face a perfect oval and charmi Bely aquiline I 1 perceive a little silver ring in the form of a twisted snake upon the slender second toe of baca bale baie foot upon each arm she has at least ten heavy beavy silver rina there are also large silver rings about her ankles a geld flower is fixed by a little hook in one nostril and two immense silver circles shaped like new moons shimmer in her ears the smith mutters something to her bier in his indian tongue she rises and seating herself on the bench beside me in an attitude of perfect grace holds out one beautiful brown arm to me that I 1 may choose a ring nog that arm is much more 0 ol 01 attention than the tings rings it has the tint the smoothness the symmetry of a fine rys work in metal the upper arm tattooed with a bluish circle of arabesques is otherwise unadorned all tile the bracelets are on the forearm very clumsy and coarse they prove to be on closer examination it was the fine dark skin which by color contrast made them lockso look so pretty I 1 choose the outer one a ro round u ring with terminations shaped like viper heads eads the smith inserts a pair of tongs between these ends presses outward slowly and strongly and the ring is off it has a faint musky odor not unpleasant the per tume of the tropical flesh it clung to the smith snatches it from me heats it in his bis little c charcoal oi furnace hammers it into a hp perfect arca t circle again slakes it in au an earthen bowl of water and burnishes it Lafe adio beam in harpas barkers ka magazine gine |
