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A bit of the sea bottom near the shore where the tide washiiij; away the mud, leaves only sand 

 fand pebbles. Here are the chimneys of the plumed worm protectively concealed by shell and weed 

 fragments. Here too, deUcate transparent shrimp, scavengers of the ocean margin, are busily 

 cleaning dead shells of their decaying fragments 



A scallop, disturbed by the mud minnows, has "jumped' 

 the eel grass 



in awkward flopping 



fashion into 

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