LIVING CREATURES. 



to think that they are somehow related to the oys- 

 ter? Yes, these pretty objects in the show-case have 

 come from shell-animals, the story of whose birth and 

 life is well worth reading. 



To make the story more real and impressive, get 

 some shells and study them. You may play with them 

 and yet know little about them. I have seen little girls 

 on the clean beach of the lake shore gathering with 



