A "homeward bound" pennant 170*ft. long, decked with 13 stars, some of which had perforce been snipped out of pink lingerie, wriggled and writhed in the breezes of New York harbor. Beneath it, no whit discomfited by the exuberant blasts of a steam whistle, there moved toward an uptown dock: Jeweled crabs, fish with eight "hands," fish with transparent panes set into their stomachs, fish with navigation lights, sex-appeal lights, food-luring lights, fish with folding films of luminous bacteria, a devilfish with a beam of 18 ft., parasite fish with suckers on...
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