Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554
ight and incalm weather, because by day, especially in roughweather, they sink below the surface to avoid theglare and heat of the sun and the buffeting of thewaves. Day is their period of repose, and nightthat of activity,—their chief feeding and breathingtime. Again, they are most abundant in… … THE TOWING-NET. by the shrimp-like and jelly-like ones. You can-not see them by day, but you can after dusk, whenthey light up the ocean with their tiny lamps. Minute crustaceans, — that is, animals of theshrimp tribe,—often as small as a pin-point, arethe commonest of them all. They are the…
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