WIND AND WAVES
"How btue thi sea'was: blue with the intend* cold of oat of Wellington's southernmost 'bays. The bobterous wind whipped round, the headland frothtag' the heaving waves Into bubbling creamy Whita.^ With a hiss as of fiendish Joy thfcf crept ateost silently to the dimpled,^ sandy shore. Some dashed against ttitt rocks, hurling, frenzied, up into ttw'aj* JW» cold wraiths from tbe;nM^t4rl6w k south. Something to dash fcway. something to destroy, but. beattt th*y slid d*wn. | sucking and gurgUhfaftHJe foot of th* rocks and rolling back with an ommous muttering, which wasswallowed up in the rush of the nexi swdLi Others tossed and twisted to fata abore's edge, dragging silvery' bods (roaa under the feet of a few' couragao«s bathew, then rippled back with ,* kqlt hush of silent, nyrophlika lauibtar -* the joke. Die wind blew -Srfc^yiscattering joypusly shiaint, wtt'^.paarl* from a mermaiden's hair. < ntritrg and damp they glittered In our hair. our eyelashes, on our clothes* ' Glorious!"^ . "RIDER <ROY* (15).. ' t-orirua. , w f
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 20
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165WIND AND WAVES Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 20
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