Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 229
es that can be made ofshells and fish-scales. The only unwelcome visitor to this beautifulbeach is the giant crab, whose shell is aboutas large as that of the green-turtle, whose eyesproject and wink, and roll horribly, while each 2 I 6 TWO QUEER COUSINS OF THE CRAB. [Jan. of its claws measures… … them on the reefs off-shore, or to their sur-prise bring them up intheir nets. The weightof the crab and thethrashing of his clawsgenerally ruin the fish-ermans net, and he isan unpleasant fellow-traveler in a smallboat. Such a crab in the middle of aboat twelve feet long could reachout to both…
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