The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 184
everything thatcomes in their way, be it hedges, houses, churches,hills, or cliffs. They would rather clamber up atthe peril of their lives than make a circuit. Theysometimes pass in at the windows on one side ofa house, right over the occupants, who may beasleep in bed, and out at those on the… … THE SPINOUS SPIDER-CRAB. dier falls and breaks his limbs he is immediatelygobbled up by his companions. Unlike most sea-crabs, the young of the land-crabs do not pass through a number of changes, but the little ones are perfect when they leavethe egg. They live on the seashore, clinging tothe…
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