Pearls. 91 
guineas. Generally the pearls of this country are 
inferior in the two requisites of colour and size. 
Interesting accounts of Pearls and Pearl-fishing, 
will be found in “The Penny’’ and “ Saturday 
Magazines,” and many other works easy of access. 
There our young readers may learn of the perils 
and dangers to which the poor divers are exposed 
from the voracious sharks, which hover about the 
fishing grounds, and make a dash at their victim, 
heedless of the written charms with which the priest 
_ or shark-charmer has provided him previous to his 
descent, and of much more than we can find space 
here to tell. All we can now do is to give the 
portrait, as drawn by Thomas Hood, of a lady 
who takes up her abode in all the pearl-producing 
bivalves, and who is, therefore, perhaps on this 
account, called 




MOTHER OF PEARL 
