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verj much like one on a small scale. After stopping for a 

 moment as if in hesitation, with its folds contracted, it made 

 another sudden movement and was lost among the stones. 

 It was not long however before it reappeared and reopened. 

 On inquiry I found that others as well as myself had been 

 puzzled by this pretty creature. Not only did no one at 

 that time know what it was, but no one knew how it came 

 where it was. Perhaps, like Topsy, it would say if endowed 

 with speech, " ^Specs I growed !" I frequently returned to 

 watch its habits, which I found very interesting. 'Not only 

 did it flap up its folds when retiring, but frequently also for 

 the purpose of getting rid of any morsels that were disagree- 

 able to it, which were shot up ten or twelve inches by the 

 action. This was often repeated ; and sometimes the stroke 

 was repeated with such regularity that a person noticing the 

 successive columns of ejected water exclaimed, " Well, I 

 never !" " Never what ?" asked his companion. " Never 

 saw a water-thing miohe." 



It turned out to be a worm of the same species that was 

 discovered by Professor Porbes in the ^gean Sea, described 

 but not named by him in a communication to the ' Annals 

 and Magazine of Natural History,^ and published by Chenu 

 in his 'Illustrations Conchyliologiques ' under the name 

 which we apply to it above. 



