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These are the first two lines of that grand old seasong, "The Rose of Allandale," but they also make a very good commencement to this chapter of mine.
The morn was indeed fair, the sky cloudless, and the sea as calm as a mill-pond; a study, too, it was in blue, with patches of green where the sand showed through, patches of darkest brown near to the shore, where the sea-weed floated on the waves like mermaids' hair.