a water-baby, alas ! but it was alobster; and a very distinguished lobster he was; forhe had live barnacles on his claws, which is a greatmark of distinction in lobsterdom, and no more tobe bought for money than a good conscience or theVictoria Cross. Tom had never seen a lobster before; and he… … 144 TDK WATER-UAWES CHAP. fanciful men, in the world, with all the oldHerman bogy-painters into the bargain, could neverinvent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anythingso curious, and so ridiculous, as a lobster. He had one claw knobbed and the other jagged ;and Tom delighted in watching…
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