Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 409
Aurivillius, hada pet crab that supported a garden of brightsea-mosses. He put it among some sponges,when it removed with great labor all the mossesfrom its back, replacing them with bits ofsponge. It put each piece of sponge up to itsmouth, and appeared to lick it over beforeplacing it on its… … THE HERMIT-CRAB IN THE SHELL OF A SEA-SNAIL. to their conception of that monster. It is fieryred and covered with fierce-looking spines.The lazy-crab, a slow-moving fellow, looks likea bit of pale-red sandstone overgrown withgreen sea-moss. In the East Indies lives ablood-red crab with a great…
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