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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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Touch
it,
and
out
poke
a
pair
of
astonished
and
inquiring
horns:
it
is
a
long-armed
crab,
who
saw
us
coming,
and
wisely
shovelled
himself
into
the
sand
by
means
of
his
nether-end.
Corystes
Cassivelaunus
is
his
name,
which
he
is
said
to
have
acquired
from
the
marks
on
his
back,
which
are
somewhat
like
a
human
face.
“Those
long
antennæ,”
says
my
friend,
Mr.
Lloyd
{90}—
I
have
not
verified
the
fact,
but
believe
it,
as
he
knows
a
great
deal
about
crabs,
and
I
know
next
to
nothing—
“form
a
tube
through
which
a
current
of
water
passes
into
the
crab’s
gills,
free
from
the
surrounding
sand.”
Moreover,
it
is
only
the
male
who
has
those
strangely
long
fore-arms
and
claws;
the
female
contenting
herself
with
limbs
of
a
more
moderate
length.
Neither
is
that,
though
it
might
be,
the
hole
down
which
what
we
seek
has
vanished:
but
that
burrow
contains
one
of
the
long
white
razors
which
you
saw
cast
on
shore
at
Paignton.
The
boys
close
by
are
boring
for
them
with
iron
rods
armed
with
a
screw,
and
taking
them
in
to
sell
in
Torquay
market,
as
excellent
food.
But
there
is
one,
at
last—
a
grey
disc
pouting
up
through
the
sand.
Touch
it,
and
it
is
gone
down,
quick
as
light.
We
must
dig
it
out,
and
carefully,
for
it
is
a
delicate
monster.
At
last,
after
ten
minutes’
careful
work,
we
have
brought
up,
from
a
foot
depth
or
more—
what?
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