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IV. 



PAOB 



A new character How a man sometimes looks like a Mister Father 

 Lucas His start in life He had been several times round the 

 world, without thinking much of it Eeturn to the native land 

 What Father Lucas calls his shepherd's round Why Leon enter- 

 tained so high an opinion of the old fisherman Unexpected news 

 Uncle Bob does not say all he thinks 40 



V. 



A Taried harvest The sea-mouse A microscopic array Tricks of the 

 chase and of war Crustaceans and Kabyles Changing armour 

 The danger of disarmament Science disconcerted Sacculina and 

 its wonderful transformations Ophiura Holothuria Chinese 

 cookery A suicide The hermit-crab An unedifying biography 

 An invitation .... 43 



VI. 



Start or the fishing-The surprise of Black-A chameleon of the 



,ters-Two lines from Deroulede The cuttle-fish's gift of tears 



A strange locomotive apparatus Black dyed afresh- An ink used 



riting by the ancients -- How Cuvier wrote and drew the 



figures of his "Memoir on Cephalopoda" The cuttle-fish bone 



Jawfication of the Mollusca-The spoils of the net ; sea-scorpion, 



frog Stomach fishing Twice eaten A singularly placed 



carpenter's tool Progressive wryneck A demented one Sad 



accident Ken6 wounded. . 



vn. 



Symptoms that may arise from th, wound of the weever-fish-The 



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*~l I \* breakfast > ^cording to Muller-More 

 '-Why hshes that live near the surface in the water 







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