Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 609
Out of a brood of ten thousand it would be arare chance for more than one or two lobstersto reach maturity, or finally to end their careerin the kitchen or the chafing-dish. The eggs are commonly laid in midsummer,—and but once in two years by the sameindividual, — and arehatched in May orJune. A… … THE LITTLE LOBSTER AFTER IDAYS GROWTH IN THE EGG. (Diagram showing its form.) thousand. Each egg is a sphere of about thesize represented by the capital O in this font oftype (one sixteenth of an inch in diameter), ofa deep-olive color, and is inclosed in a transpa-rent, waterproof sac, or shell,…
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