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makes the bowl rise or go forward. I can find no 

 shell, no teeth, nor anything solid about it; but 

 there are some faint purple spots and lines inside. 



Very well; you are observing finely. The jellies 

 are very strange creatures, and their bodies are 

 composed of but little besides water. And yet 

 they are very much alive, have excellent appe- 

 tites, and some of them are very beautiful crea- 

 tures. There are many kinds, some of them 

 growing to a great size. Others are hardly larger 

 than peas. They have a very curious life history, 

 for the eggs of jelly-fishes are apt to hatch out into 

 something very different from their parents. You 

 will learn of these changes when you study zoology. 



One of the near neighbors of the jelly-fish is 

 the little Sailfish, or Salleeman. Sometimes thou- 

 sands of them are blown in from the sea and 

 perish on the beach. When dry, the sailfish 

 looks like a little oval piece of white tissue-paper, 

 about two inches long, while standing up from 

 this is another clear piece, which runs across 

 cornerwise, like a little sail. When found fresh, 

 there are short, blue fringes hanging from the 

 oval piece, and these are like the fringes that 3^ou 

 find on some of the jelly-fishes. 



Well, John, what have you brought to-day? 



I have brought the queerest starfish that I ever 



