splashing — my Faithful Assistant at one end of 

 the long seine and I at the other — to prevent its 

 getting away. We did this purely from the sheer 

 determination to catch it, having no intention to 

 keep or to harm it even if or after it was ours. But 

 the little shark, being evidently as determined as 

 ourselves, in a desperate effort leaped clear from 

 the water and fell on the seaward side of the floats 

 supporting our seine, disappearing at once to be 

 seen no more. 



However, apart from their passing interest, 

 fishes engaged us not at all; our chief interest was 

 centered upon the crustaceans which we found 

 among the contents of the landed net. Fortune had 

 been uncommonly kind. Beside a goodly assort- 

 ment of such as lady- or spotted-crabs, green-crabs, 

 rock-crabs, mud-crabs and hermit-crabs, more 

 Hyases came our way. 



Indeed, I had now obtained more than were 

 sufficient for my intended purposes of study and 

 experiment. I was able to select only such as were 

 suited to my needs; it was not necessary here to 

 content myself with decrepits and cripples — which 

 the hazards of collecting not uncommonly compel 

 — and I chose only specimens of worth. Among 



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