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light, or perhaps it’s the flashing scales of the trapped fish. Fish certainly have lovely, that is, “fetching” skins with those overlapping little rainbow-infused scales. And the fish trapped are for the fetching, aren’t they? This garden gnome is sure a dunderhead, the fisher gnome thinks. Nothing he could do would be on time. Unless somebody offered him some help, a hand, so to speak, a gentle hand, perhaps, so “gloved.” A tendency is a “character or quality that tends toward some result” or “gradual progress.” So, a “gloved tendency” would be gradualized gradualness. That does seem at odds with