The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words. Fools consider pieces of rocks as gems.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

Not to sink under being man and wife,But get some color and music out of life?

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.