Life Beneath the Waves. 81 



rally break up before it is raised above the 

 surface of the sea, cautiously and anxiously 

 I sunk my bucket to a level with the 

 dredge's mouth, and proceeded in the most 

 gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the 

 purer element. Whether the cold air was 

 too much for him, or the sight of the 

 bucket too terrific, I know not ; but in a 

 moment he proceeded to dissolve his cor- 

 poration, and at every mesh of the dredge 

 his fragments were seen escaping. In 

 despair I grasped at the largest, and 

 brought up the extremity of an arm with 

 its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of 

 which opened and closed with something 

 exceedingly like a wink of derision." 



There are many other kinds of Starfish ; 



but as limited space will not allow them to 



be mentioned, I must pass on to the notice 



of an inhabitant of the sea, whose outward 



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