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    NOTICES OF BOOKS, 65

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    Grlimpses Of Ocean Life; Or, Mock Pools ...

    j all o ecting ver spread nearl above y out the the at entire surface full length vessel of the . hi M water gh y fishes and . The dry disliking upon little Soldier a their ledge - usual Crab of rock had haunt work man s , , we aged pro re

    -. efforts fresh to drag air speedil his in bod safety y came y and . to His heavy grief big . tail brother Finding piece was he up could not the so brae not successful drag , hop his ing , carriage to and bre desp athe ite the the his

    rock , he stepped out of the lumbering vehicle . His appearance , soon became up with woe-begone singular in instinct the extreme , had . collected In a few in minutes a row along he exp the ired dry . led The ge buckies of the tank , too , .

    " Upon counting the numbers of my little colony , I found all right excepthe ing was C . _JMcsnas defunct . ; him No I time could , therefore not discover , was , to and be I lost soon , so began a diligent to suspect search that for

    speedil his remains y placed was in instantl safety y in commenced an extemporaneous . Pishes , Buckies tank—nothing , Hermits else , & than c , were . an answere old pie-dish d the . required This receptacle purpose , . when partly filled with sea-water , admirably

    base " The I found water , as in I the expected large , vase the was dismembered gently run carcas off , and e of on the _approaching crab . One the leg _fusel then stone lay here y , I decorated on thoug , and which ht another sat with was my the a there p favorite lume mystery , while of limpet sea the -grass lained bod with y and . was its It infantile curiousl snug was from ly JD y ensconced . formed sanguined this spot shell beneath . that , Here pro the a - ,

    noxious , vapor must , have emanated exp . Of course , the body of the crab was turbed removed the ; but limpet in performing . Gruess my thi surprise s necessary at ob act serving I tilted the the overturned stone , and shell so dis of

    of the putrefaction Patella , to be . * quite It now empty began , and to its dawn former on _occujDant me that ly I ing must before have me libelled a mass C . _JMcenas . A few moments served to confirm this inionfor on lifting the

    op , stantl stone , y there went darted through out a circus a—I could -like performanc scarcely believe e around it was the the circumference crab , who in of - the vessel .

    " The reader will be prepared to learn that what I had at first observed over were the portions tank . of the exuvium , which had by some means been distributed

    exuviation " Many , m but onths , except did I wait in the with instances nervous I anxiety am now to about see the to exact chronicle process of wishes were never gratified . , my

    measuring " I had at about one time one inch in my across possession the back six little ( carapace vases ) , . each By containing constant watch a crab

    fulness confident , m hope orning of and being evening favored , for with several a sight month of the s , I moulting naturally operation entertained in at a least a single instance . But no ; persevering though my endeavors were , I

    was crabs always so managed disappointed matters . , that The the exuviae process were was cast comp regularl leted y either enoug when h , but I was the asleep , or had just gone away . I could almost have sworn that the whole

    pack had entered into a league to annoy me . a certa " On in one Cancer occasion _Msenas I sat exhibited up all nig , ht that , feeling he was confident speedil , from y about symptoms to exuviate which . :

    up sh Ala all the s ! never I ca was rapace forget mistaken of the . . crab On , my I received endeavoring a nip on expedite my finger the so event severe by , th lifti at ng I

    ¦ " But at length in the early portion of last year ( 1859 ) , I , most happily for in my a tolerabl wn pea y ce large of min specime d , did actuall n of the y witness Common the Shore entire Crab process . The of exuvi animal ation in

    tumbler question , , render who wa ed s himself domiciled a favorite in a crystal from va se , constant or , in common habit language of poking p a g rt lass of occasionall * " This y affords to touch an its important conical house liint to , to the make young sure aquarian the proprietor to watch is alive the and Patella well , . and

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    Notices Of Books, 65

    NOTICES _OF BOOKS , 65

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/65/