Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 340
ping I will find the answer in Because We Want to Know, I am Your loving reader, Margaret Osborne. The horn-shaped shell is tubular. In it lives alittle animal that takes its shell home with it andlies head downward in the sand of the oceanbottom, in a slanting position with the little endthrust up… … THE TUBULAR AND CORAL-LIKE SHELLS. The shells naturally suggest stringing, and theywere so used by the Indians as money and orna-ments. They are commonly called tooth-shells.The scientists name them Dentalium, and underthat title in most books on shells you will findmuch interesting information.…
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