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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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You
ought,
besides,
to
dredge
many
handsome
species
of
shells,
which
you
would
never
pick
up
along
the
beach;
and
if
you
are
conchologizing
in
earnest,
you
must
not
forget
to
bring
home
a
tin
box
of
shell
sand,
to
be
washed
and
picked
over
in
a
dish
at
your
leisure,
or
forget
either
to
wash
through
a
fine
sieve,
over
the
boat’s
side,
any
sludge
and
ooze
which
the
dredge
brings
up.
Many—
I
may
say,
hundreds—
rare
and
new
shells
are
found
in
this
way,
and
in
no
other.
But
if
you
cannot
afford
the
expense
of
your
own
dredge
and
boat,
and
the
time
and
trouble
necessary
to
follow
the
occupation
scientifically,
yet
every
trawler
and
oyster-boat
will
afford
you
a
tolerable
satisfaction.
Go
on
board
one
of
these;
and
while
the
trawl
is
down,
spend
a
pleasant
hour
or
two
in
talking
with
the
simple,
honest,
sturdy
fellows
who
work
it,
from
whom
(if
you
are
as
fortunate
as
I
have
been
for
many
a
year
past)
you
may
get
many
a
moving
story
of
danger
and
sorrow,
as
well
as
many
a
shrewd
practical
maxim,
and
often,
too,
a
living
recognition
of
God,
and
the
providence
of
God,
which
will
send
you
home,
perhaps,
a
wiser
and
more
genial
man.
And
when
the
trawl
is
hauled,
wait
till
the
fish
are
counted
out,
and
packed
away,
and
then
kneel
down
and
inspect
(in
a
pair
of
Mackintosh
leggings,
and
your
oldest
coat)
the
crawling
heap
of
shells
and
zoophytes
which
remains
behind
about
the
decks,
and
you
will
find,
if
a
landsman,
enough
to
occupy
you
for
a
week
to
come.
Nay,
even
if
it
be
too
calm
for
trawling,
condescend
to
go
out
in
a
dingy,
and
help
to
haul
some
honest
fellow’s
deep-sea
lines
and
lobster-pots,
and
you
will
find
more
and
stranger
things
about
them
than
even
fish
or
lobsters:
though
they,
to
him
who
has
eyes
to
see,
are
strange
enough.
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