Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 484
veral days, until itsshell begins to grow. Then it f.istens upon a rock,and at once begins wriggling and working to make ahole in the rock. The rasp on its shell aids it, andthis rasp and the sand that is washed between it andthe rock are the only tools the Iholas uses. It makeslittle or no… … Kut-K-uVS 1 EKb. the larger it makes its home. The entrance it madeinto this home is small, and now that the Pholas is full-grown it can never get out. The sand shifts in to acertain degree, but there is always an opening. ThePholas has a long neck or tul)e which it reaches outthrough this entrance…
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