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CRAB, SHRIMP, AND LOBSTER LORE. 



the Britisli Museum. It serves to show the idea 

 entertained in this country of that particular sign at 

 the period referred to. Those remarkably odd fellows 

 the early Eomans, even in their time, were not the sort 

 of folks to overlook or heedlessly pass by the merits of 

 so distinguished a gentleman as Mr. Cancer. He was 

 well known and highly appreciated in the Seven-hilled 

 City long before Art, except as brought to bear on the 

 delineation of rude and uncouth patterns on the skins 

 of the inhabitants, was known in this country. But 



when the restless Eoman gentry, before referred to, 

 cast their lot on a distant shore, and settled in the 

 savage British Isles, they bore with them memories not 

 to be effaced or treated lightly. Tesselated pavements 

 in Cancer's honour were elaborately wrought, and care- 

 fully laid down by them in the viUas they here built 



