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CKAB, SIIRBliS AND LOBSTER LORE. 



tremely numerous, and it is with the peculiarities uf 

 some of its members that ^\e shall now have to deal. 



Amon^^ all the curious and quaint forms of animal 

 life to be found in the sea, few for grotesque oddity 

 can equal the baby Crabs, or Zo'ea, as they are some- 

 times called. These interesting infants are not the 

 least lilve their papa or mamma, and no respectable or 

 fully-matured male or female Crab would ever own 

 them as his or her offspring. An elfish little creature 



is the juvenile Crab, with 

 a head scarcely deserving 

 the name, and a pair of 

 ffOGgle bulls'-eves as of two 

 policemen's lanterns rolled 

 into one ; a tail vastly too 

 long for him, and an anti- 

 garotte spear, quite as long 

 as his absurd little body, 

 attached to the spot where 

 his coat-collar should be. The annexed illustrations 

 will serve to give some idea of these prepossessing 

 juveniles. They are the portraits of two little cousins. 

 In this case, age, although it alters appearances, 

 affects disposition but little, and, as you turn over 

 some stone, fragment of wreck, or tuft of weed, 

 in search of curiosities, young Master Crab will, 

 in all probability, be found at home, and, like an 



