Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 409
y, be it hedges,houses, churches, hills, or cliffs. They wouldrather clamber up at the peril of their lives thanmake a circuit. They sometimes pass in at thewindows on one side of a house, right over theoccupants, who may be asleep in bed, and outat those on the other side, causing the peopleno… … THE SPINOUS SPIDER-CRAB. dier falls and breaks his limbs he is immediatelygobbled up by his companions. Unlike most sea-crabs, the young of the land-crabs do not pass through a number of changes,but the little ones are perfect when they leavethe egg. They live on the sea-shore, clinging tothe…
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