The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 185
ortion to the rest of the tiny fel-low. The Japanese, who have always some poeti- cal idea upon every subject, call the fiddler Sihomancki, which means beckoning for the returnof the tide. The fiddlers are in the habit ofgesticulating with the great claw as if beckoningor drawing the bow across a… … THE LADY-CRAB. Many of the fiddlers live upon seaweeds. Pro-fessor Smith has seen them scraping up the sandon which their favorite food grows, making itinto pellets, and carrying these into their holes,where he sometimes discovered large quantitiesstored for future use. The hermits are very…
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