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p.114
<like gnarled dragonets straining down to drink>
I had to look this up! It seems to mean a kind of tropical fish, but that is certainly NOT what JRRT means here. Or it means a small dragon. I wonder in what context he had encountered the term; how was it used in the late 19th century?
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