viii CONTENTS. 



IV. 



PAOB 



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

 Lucas His start in life He bad been several times round tbe 

 world, without thinking much of it Return 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 



A varied 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 . ........ 48 



VI. 



t for the fishing The surprise of Black A chameleon of the 

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

 A strange locomotive apparatus Black dyed afresh -An ink used 

 for writing by the ancients--How Cuvier wrote and drew the 

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

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

 fishing-frog Stomach fishing Twice eaten A singularly placed 

 carpenter's tool Progressive wryneck A demented one Sad 

 accident Kene wouniled 61 



vn. 



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

 poisonous structures of the weever ClHSsificntion of fishes A fanci- 

 ful etymology A shark's breakfast, according to Muller More 

 strange names Why fishes that live near the surface in the water 

 cannot penetrate to great depths Life in the abysses of the ocean 

 How a simple thread sufficed to overturn the theories of scientific 



men Researches made by the English, Swedish, and Americans 



Explorations of the Travaillwr and Talisman Surprising results 

 Remarks by Kene The invalid's nightmare ... 78 



