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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Next,
for
the
babies’
heads,
covered
with
prickles,
instead
of
hair.
They
are
sea-urchins,
Amphidotus
cordatus,
which
burrow
by
thousands
in
the
sand.
These
are
of
that
Spatangoid
form,
which
you
will
often
find
fossil
in
the
chalk,
and
which
shepherd
boys
call
snakes’
heads.
We
shall
soon
find
another
sort,
an
Echinus,
and
have
time
to
talk
over
these
most
strange
(in
my
eyes)
of
all
living
animals.
There
are
a
hundred
more
things
to
be
talked
of
here:
but
we
must
defer
the
examination
of
them
till
our
return;
for
it
wants
an
hour
yet
of
the
dead
low
spring-tide;
and
ere
we
go
home,
we
will
spend
a
few
minutes
at
least
on
the
rocks
at
Livermead,
where
awaits
us
a
strong-backed
quarryman,
with
a
strong-backed
crowbar,
as
is
to
be
hoped
(for
he
snapped
one
right
across
there
yesterday,
falling
miserably
on
his
back
into
a
pool
thereby),
and
we
will
verify
Mr.
Gosse’s
observation,
that—
“When
once
we
have
begun
to
look
with
curiosity
on
the
strange
things
that
ordinary
people
pass
over
without
notice,
our
wonder
is
continually
excited
by
the
variety
of
phase,
and
often
by
the
uncouthness
of
form,
under
which
some
of
the
meaner
creatures
are
presented
to
us.
And
this
is
very
specially
the
case
with
the
inhabitants
of
the
sea.
We
can
scarcely
poke
or
pry
for
an
hour
among
the
rocks,
at
low-water
mark,
or
walk,
with
an
observant
downcast
eye,
along
the
beach
after
a
gale,
without
finding
some
oddly-fashioned,
suspicious-looking
being,
unlike
any
form
of
life
that
we
have
seen
before.
The
dark
concealed
interior
of
the
sea
becomes
thus
invested
with
a
fresh
mystery;
its
vast
recesses
appear
to
be
stored
with
all
imaginable
forms;
and
we
are
tempted
to
think
there
must
be
multitudes
of
living
creatures
whose
very
figure
and
structure
have
never
yet
been
suspected.
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