VET. 
A PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR, 
THE MEDUSA FAMILY. 
“A PortrucursE man-of-war has been 
stranded below on the beach,” announced Mr. 
Bremely, one evening upon his return home. 
“Tt will pay you all to go down and see it.” 
Tom hastened to impart the information to 
Dr. McLean, who promised to join the excur- 
sion in the morning. He came and met Un- 
dine with the words: “I have brought a Crep- 
dula in which to convey our Aphrodite to the 
scene of interest; it would be too long a walk 
for her.” 
Undine laughingly answered: “I know 
what a Crepidula is! I have some of the shells 
in my cabinet; they look like fairy boats with 
a seat in one end, and Cousin Ellen told me 
they had been called ‘one-seated shallops whose 
boatmen had departed.’ You mean I am to 
ride in something nice; but why call me Aphro- 
dite? I don’t know about that long word.” 
