Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 230
monkeysran up the chestnut-trees and pelted the crabswith the burrs, but the crabs never felt any of the shell between them, look like tufts ofhair at the top of a narrow forehead. Thereare lumps resembling eyelids, which slant up-ward as do those of the Japanese, and otherparts of the shell look… … prickles through their thick shells, and continued Japanese armor. This plainly marked face on to eat. Then the monkeys made a chain of the crabs shell naturally gave rise to many themselves by hanging on to one another from stories and legends. At one place in the Inland the branches overhead, and…
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