A Goodly Company of Crabs 



large for it, that shell is discarded in favour of 

 a new one. 



But whether the said crab commonly contents 

 himself with an empty habitation, the occupant 

 of which has died earlier, or whether he first 

 kills and eats the live Mollusc, and then " com- 

 mandeers " the shell, does not seem to be known 

 with certainty. 



229 



