BITS BY POND, RIVER, AND SEASHORE. 



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utmost limit to which the eye could pierce through 

 the clear water, everything was black with them, 



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SEA. URCHIN AXU STAKFISH. 



and not one ot the bivalves was, so far as I could 

 see, more than half an inch in length. Mussels 

 anchor themselves to the piece of rock or wood 

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