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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Now
for
the
live
stock.
In
the
crannies
of
every
rock
you
will
find
sea-anemones
(Actiniæ);
and
a
dozen
of
these
only
will
be
enough
to
convert
your
little
vase
into
the
most
brilliant
of
living
flower-gardens.
There
they
hang
upon
the
under
side
of
the
ledges,
apparently
mere
rounded
lumps
of
jelly:
one
is
of
dark
purple
dotted
with
green;
another
of
a
rich
chocolate;
another
of
a
delicate
olive;
another
sienna-yellow;
another
all
but
white.
Take
them
from
their
rock;
you
can
do
it
easily
by
slipping
under
them
your
finger-nail,
or
the
edge
of
a
pewter
spoon.
Take
care
to
tear
the
sucking
base
as
little
as
possible
(though
a
small
rent
they
will
darn
for
themselves
in
a
few
days,
easily
enough),
and
drop
them
into
a
basket
of
wet
sea-weed;
when
you
get
home
turn
them
into
a
dish
full
of
water
and
leave
them
for
the
night,
and
go
to
look
at
them
to-morrow.
What
a
change!
The
dull
lumps
of
jelly
have
taken
root
and
flowered
during
the
night,
and
your
dish
is
filled
from
side
to
side
with
a
bouquet
of
chrysanthemums;
each
has
expanded
into
a
hundred-petalled
flower,
crimson,
pink,
purple,
or
orange;
touch
one,
and
it
shrinks
together
like
a
sensitive
plant,
displaying
at
the
root
of
the
petals
a
ring
of
brilliant
turquoise
beads.
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