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Excerpt from The Prairie Mother
Then I ebbed up out of the pea-green depths again, and was troubled by the sound of voices, so thin and far-away I couldn't make out what they were saying. Then came the beating of a tom-tom, so loud that it hurt. When that died away for a minute or two I caught the sound of the sharp and quavery squall of something, of something which had never squalled be fore, a squall of protest and injured pride, of mal treated youth resenting the ignominious way it must enter the world. Then the tom-tom beating started up again, and I opened my eyes to make sure it wasn't the Grenadiers' Band going by.
I saw a face bending over mine, seeming to ?oat in space. It was the color of a half -grown cucumber, and it made me think of a tropical fish in an aquarium when the water needed changing.
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