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molluscs at tlie bottom, and because he is a designiug, 

 artful little wolf of a crab, he brings to bear his talent 

 for stratagem. After searching out a nice, hollov/ 

 piece of soft and fine-grained sponge, he works his way 

 under it — roaches up his little back, until the yielding 

 material opens and again closes round him, thus forming 

 a snug and well fitting great-coat, which, like charity, 

 covers a multitude of sins. 



The tricksy sprites of fish and shrimps, as they 

 joyously disport themselves amongst the branching 

 coral, take little heed of the familiar ball of sponge, 

 which in some unaccountable manner or another 

 a]3pears, uninvited, in the very midst of the revels. 

 It is strange, certainly, that guest after guest should 

 vanish into it, and return no more ; but sponges, you 

 know, are common enough in every grade of society, 

 and therefore it is that the one in question is little 

 suspected of having a live adventurer, of the most 

 acquisitive and nipsome habits, bound up within its 

 folds : but there he is, for all that, as you would find 

 out to your cost, if you unwittingly enlisted him for 

 toilet purposes, on the strength of his borrowed 

 uniform. 



As another instance of quaint resemblance to 

 inanimate or stationary objects, we have Echinocerus 

 ciharius, a native of the ITorth-west Coast of America, 

 where it was discovered during the voyage of Her 



