Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 246
d onesummer when several living argonauts weretaken. One particularly large specimen wasbrought to me by a man who held the shell atseventy-five dollars, but who gave me the animal.I placed the latter in a tank, borrowed a largeshell from a friend, and had the satisfaction ofseeing the beautiful… … FIG. I. THE NAUTU^US OUT OF ITS bllKI.I.. For several days and nights I had this won-derful creature under observation. The first sur-prise was its tameness. It is supposed to be one of the most timid of al! animals, and doubtless is,in its native haunts; but ten minutes after I hadplaced it in the…
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