Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 231
urs truly, G. Lucille Smith (age n). The rear part of the hermit-crab is not hardlike that of a shrimp or crawfish, nor short anddoubled underneath like that of the commoncrab, but is soft and fleshy, and in itself is notwell protected from enemies. Therefore thehermit-crab usually takes possession… … A COMMON CRAB. times the hermit-crab occupies a plant-stem orother similar tube. In moving about, the her-mit-crab carries this borrowed house, and its ap-pearance is somewhat similar to that of a snail.When the hermit-crab outgrows one. shell hequits it and takes possession of another. Thetroubles…
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