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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
136
That
last
word
is
no
figure
of
speech.
Look
among
the
beds
of
sea-weed
for
a
few
of
the
bright
yellow
or
green
sea-snails
(Nerita),
or
Conical
Tops
(Trochus),
especially
that
beautiful
pink
one
spotted
with
brown
(Ziziphinus),
which
you
are
sure
to
find
about
shaded
rock-ledges
at
dead
low
tide,
and
put
them
into
your
aquarium.
For
the
present,
they
will
only
nibble
the
green
ulvæ;
but
when
the
film
of
young
weed
begins
to
form,
you
will
see
it
mown
off
every
morning
as
fast
as
it
grows,
in
little
semicircular
sweeps,
just
as
if
a
fairy’s
scythe
had
been
at
work
during
the
night.
[Picture:
Plate
8:
Littorina
Littorea
etc.]
And
a
scythe
has
been
at
work;
none
other
than
the
tongue
of
the
little
shell-fish;
a
description
of
its
extraordinary
mechanism
(too
long
to
quote
here,
but
which
is
well
worth
reading)
may
be
found
in
Gosse’s
“Aquarium.”
{201}
A
prawn
or
two,
and
a
few
minute
star-fish,
will
make
your
aquarium
complete;
though
you
may
add
to
it
endlessly,
as
one
glance
at
the
salt-water
tanks
of
the
Zoological
Gardens,
and
the
strange
and
beautiful
forms
which
they
contain,
will
prove
to
you
sufficiently.
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