arm brought up a bag containing something I knew 

 not what, but I saw that it was living and that it 

 had been weighted down. 



Bringing her burden to the shore, she beckoned 

 and called for me to come. I was at her side in a 

 trice. Untying the dripping gunnysack, she rolled 

 it back and revealed its living load . . . Only 

 now did the significance of that lurking twinkle 

 and her consequent caprice become entirely clear. 

 While I had been occupied for over an hour in- 

 tently bent upon a business whose net result was 

 the finding of two spider-crabs, not uncommon in 

 other parts, but here comparatively rare, she, dur- 

 ing various employments among which was prepar- 

 ing the midnight meal, had found time to do some 

 collecting of her own accord and had gathered six- 

 teen specimens of Hyas along the water's edge! 

 These were of varying sizes, of different sexes, 

 young and old. 



V 



Our determination to make a night of it on the 

 bight was strengthened by our further success at 

 wading with the hand-seine. The returning tide, 

 it seemed, had brought in full force the various 



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