Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 689
ca hcros),round and smooth as an apple, a familiar objecton our east coast. The soft animal (mollusk)eats other forms of animal life. Rogers TheShell Book says: No adornment is to be seen upon the strong house thatshelters this business-like mollusk butcher. He rolls upliis sleeves, so to speak,… … the moon shell (Natica). If you search carefully you are pretty sure to find its eggs, scatteredthrough a glue-like mass covered with sand grains, that has muchthe shape of a stand-up collar, and is one of the curiosities of thebeach. of amazement when the size of the shell is taken into ac-count.…
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