Noisy music drifted out of the screened window of the bar, but under it I could hear the crickets and the repetitions of a whippoorwill and under that again the crowly croaking of the bullfrogs in the reeds along the water's edge.

It's disgraceful the way that they've treated you. I should write and complain.

Further to the east he could see the jetty of the Yacht Club, where one may eat to surfeit of the best bouillabaisse in the world, in some of the best company.

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