Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 197
A sea-anemone. (Seizing a small object.) one does not draw himself together in alarm;instead of that, he rolls his tentacles over the … THE SEA-ANEMONE. (As it looks when contracted.) meat, and carries this inward to his mouth. Ifyou think you will fool the little animal, and sotry to feed him with pieces of shell, wood, blot-ting-paper, or anything that is not food, youwill find that he is wiser than you thought; forhe will refuse…
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