Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 231
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 of this house-hunting are very amusingto an observer. He often tries many shellsbefore he finds one that will fit.… … HERMIT-CRAB IN SHELL OF SEA-SNAIL. igoi.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 177
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