CRAB, SHPJiir, AND LOBSTER LORE. 



CEABS. 



From tlie very earliest periods of tlie world's history 

 the family of Crab appears to have been well known 

 and mucli respected, and the Zodiac would be incom- 

 plete without its " Cancer r The picture from which 

 the accompanying illustration is taken was drawn 



by an artist of the thirteenth century, and appears as 

 an embellishment in a Prayer-book which afterwards 

 became the property of Queen Mary, and is now in 



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