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into jars of cool salt water and we will watch them 

 move. 



And now we will talk of the starfish. In the 

 first place, he is not a fish at all, but he surely 

 looks like a star; and men used to call almost 

 everything that lives in the water a fish. It is not 



easy to change old 

 names, and star- 

 fish is a word easy 

 to pronounce. 



How many 

 points are there 

 to his star? 

 Five. 



Correct; but do 

 all starfishes have 



^^Snve'JG. f^^rQ points? 



Don't know? Well, if you will watch, you will 

 find some little ones with six points; and you 

 may get a big, soft red one, called a sun-star, 

 which has twenty or more. But five is the com- 

 mon number. 



Now, what are these five points for? 



They are legs, sir. 



Are you sure of that? Can a starfish step off on 

 these legs? or can he swim with them? Watch 

 this one in the great jar of salt water. If they 

 are legs, they must be very lame ones. 



