Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 461
ks up the par-ticles of vegetable matter and places them inthe mouth, while the eyes are all the time raisedaloft on their stalks and apparently looking offinto the distance. The female crabs have bothclaws small and of equal size, so they are bothused in feeding, and she can satisfy her hungerjust… … that in certain situations theshore is fairly alive with them.We may see them now, no largerthan ones finger-nail, swimming ac-tively about in the shallow water, orplowing the sand up before them withtheir queer little shovel-shaped heads.They soon retire to deep water and live therewith their…
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