CRABS. 



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enraged dentist, ready to do fierce battle against all 

 intruders with his upraised pincers. This is the ill- 

 disposed young gentleman Avho sends Lotti/ or ToUt/, 

 with heartrending screams and pinched pettitoes, in 

 wild dismay from the charming shell-floored pool, in 

 which they have been paddling. Master Crab's internal 

 economy is just as curious as his external skeleton. 

 One pair of jaws one would be disposed to think 

 sufficient for any living creature of reasonable require- 



ments ; but he possesses eight, and, instead of exposing 

 his teeth to the examination of the critical in matters 

 of dentition, he carries them safely stowed away in the 

 interior of his stomach, where they would be exces- 

 sively hard to get at in cases of crustacean tooth-ache. 

 With such appliances as these, the food cannot well 

 be otherwise than perfectly masticated. A Crab's 

 liver is an odd organ to contemplate, and constitutes 

 a considerable portion of the soft interior of the shell- 



