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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
135
But
you
will
want
more
than
these
anemones,
both
for
your
own
amusement,
and
for
the
health
of
your
tank.
Microscopic
animals
will
breed,
and
will
also
die;
and
you
need
for
them
some
such
scavenger
as
our
poor
friend
Squinado,
to
whom
you
were
introduced
a
few
pages
back.
Turn,
then,
a
few
stones
which
lie
piled
on
each
other
at
extreme
low-water
mark,
and
five
minutes’
search
will
give
you
the
very
animal
you
want,—
a
little
crab,
of
a
dingy
russet
above,
and
on
the
under
side
like
smooth
porcelain.
His
back
is
quite
flat,
and
so
are
his
large
angular
fringed
claws,
which,
when
he
folds
them
up,
lie
in
the
same
plane
with
his
shell,
and
fit
neatly
into
its
edges.
Compact
little
rogue
that
he
is,
made
especially
for
sidling
in
and
out
of
cracks
and
crannies,
he
carries
with
him
such
an
apparatus
of
combs
and
brushes
as
Isidor
or
Floris
never
dreamed
of;
with
which
he
sweeps
out
of
the
sea-water
at
every
moment
shoals
of
minute
animalcules,
and
sucks
them
into
his
tiny
mouth.
Mr.
Gosse
will
tell
you
more
of
this
marvel,
in
his
“Aquarium,”
p.
48.
Next,
your
sea-weeds,
if
they
thrive
as
they
ought
to
do,
will
sow
their
minute
spores
in
millions
around
them;
and
these,
as
they
vegetate,
will
form
a
green
film
on
the
inside
of
the
glass,
spoiling
your
prospect:
you
may
rub
it
off
for
yourself,
if
you
will,
with
a
rag
fastened
to
a
stick;
but
if
you
wish
at
once
to
save
yourself
trouble,
and
to
see
how
all
emergencies
in
nature
are
provided
for,
you
will
set
three
or
four
live
shells
to
do
it
for
you,
and
to
keep
your
sub-aqueous
lawn
close
mown.
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