The Children, Too, Especially The Girls, Some
Almost As Tall As Their Large Mothers, Though Still In Short
Frocks, Were Very Fine.
The one pastime of these was
paddling, and it was a delight to see their bare feet and
legs.
The legs of those who had been longest on the spot
- probably several weeks in some instances - were of a deep
nutty brown hue suffused with pink; after these a gradation of
colour, light brown tinged with buff, pinkish buff and cream,
like the Gloire de Dijon rose; and so on to the delicate
tender pink of the clover blossom; and, finally, the purest
ivory white of the latest arrivals whose skins had not yet
been caressed and coloured by sun and wind.
How beautiful are the feet of these girls by the sea who bring
us glad tidings of a better time to come and the day of a
nobler courage, a freer larger life when garments which have
long oppressed and hindered shall have been cast away!
It was, as I have said, mere chance which had brought so many
persons of a particular type together on this occasion, and I
thought I might go there year after year and never see the
like again. As a fact I did return when August came round and
found a crowd of a different character. The type was there
but did not predominate: it was no longer the herd of
beautiful white and strawberry cows with golden horns and
large placid eyes.
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