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called the coral. The baby-lobsters differ greatly from their parents. 

 Their eyes are very large, and set in the head instead of on eye-stalks. 

 Tliey have a great rounded head-shield (carapace) and a small body 

 (Fig. 31). The limbs are not at all like the lobster's; altogether, he 

 looks as if his eyes and head were running away with him. As soon 

 as he is hatched he begins to swim about and feed himself, and never 



Ear-Sac. 



Nerve. 



Head-Piece, or Carapace. 



Grains of 

 Sand. 



Eye 



Fig. SO. 



Fig. 31 YorxG Lobster. 



goes back to the old home. Of course, as he grows, his shell gets too 

 small, but, instead of putting on an addition as the mussel does, he 

 leaves the old house altogether and builds a new one. In three days 

 after the lobster moves out of the old house he has been found all set- 

 tled in a bran-new one one-third larger. Two round balls are often 

 found in the lobster's stomach, and people call them " crab's-eyes." 

 These balls are made of lime, which it is said the lobster has been 

 storing up for his new shell. Thus the lobster moves " out of the old 

 house into the new " every year till he gets his growth. Then he lives 

 contentedly under the same roof till he dies, or till some one throws 

 him into a lobster-pot. 



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TRANSLATED FROM THE FREJTCn OF LOUIS FIGUIER, BY CLARA HAMMOXD. 



IN the beginning of 1846, a year memorable in the history of table- 

 turning and spirit-rapping, Angelique Cottin was a girl of four- 

 teen, living in the village of Bouvigny, near La Perriere, department 

 of Orne, France. She w r as of low stature, but of robust frame, and 

 apathetic to an extraordinary degree both in body and mind. On 

 January 15th of the year named, while the girl was with three others 

 engaged in weaving silk-thread gloves, the oaken table at which they 

 worked began to move and change position. The work-women were 

 alarmed ; work was for a moment suspended, but was soon resumed. 

 But, when Angelique again took her place, the table began anew to 



