30 A Day with the Sea Urchins.

 

 

Then Pearl crossed one little pink foot over a
dimpled knee to form a table as she rode, and taking
the bridle of her horse over her arm, drew such a funny
sketch of the dog-fish that the rest all praised it, and
laughed immensely. On and on they went; the sun
was getting higher in the sky, and the calm surface of
the bay lay shining and mottled over with all manner
of colours ; here deeply blue, like a sapphire, and there,
where green weedy rocks were beneath the surface, as
green as anemerald. Then came a broad golden topaz-
coloured sun-track, with ruby ripples dancing in it, pearly