DOWN IN GARDENS OF THE SEA 



'Sea anemones" live in shaded ocean nooks. As beautiful as flowers, they are really voracious animals, with 

 the rose, olive, or yellow tentacles which encircle their mouths armed with poison to aid in the capture 

 of crab, mollusk, or fish. In the daytime they may seem to move as little as flowers, but at night they are 

 active, and may even change their location. One with a column but an inch high may assume, as we 

 watch, a stature of four or more inches, with the ruffle of tentacles stretching far above that ; or, if alarmed, 

 the whole animal may quickly contract to a flattened jelly-like mass less than a half-inch high 



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