From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the
water and saw the tiny fish that were colored like the trailing
filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble
made as it drifted. They were immune to its poison. But men were not and
when some of the filaments would catch on a line and rest there slimy
and purple while the old man was working a fish, he would have welts and
sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak
can give. But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and
struck like a whiplash. The iridescent bubbles were beautiful. But they
were the
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