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distance ; two occasionally meeting from slightly 

 different angles would fraternise in friendly buzz 

 and gambol, and then hurry on together to the 

 joint. Others were still coming up when I lifted 

 the head again and carried it several yards farther 

 to windward. In a couple of minutes 17 were in to 

 breakfast, some having travelled eight yards to get 

 there. And once more I removed the head, placing 

 it on this occasion nearer the water's edge. In three 

 minutes but one insect had discovered it, and this 

 was an individual which happened to be passing to 

 leeward. 



The Sandhoppers, however, do the lion's share of 

 the eating, and astonish one by the thoroughness 

 as well as the alacrity with which they devour every 

 muscular fragment found upon the small fish and 

 the crabs that are thrown up and left upon the 

 sands. Perfectly empty crabshells are found, and 

 Pogges, small flat fish, and others, are very quickly 

 reduced to a mere outside skin and inside skeleton. 



AN AGED PRAWN 



The JEsop's Prawn (Pandalus annulicomis) is 

 extremely abundant off the Norfolk and Suffolk 



