86 Life Beneath the Waves. 



appears on our breakfast-table, the prawn, 

 when alive, is of a transparent greenish- 

 grey, streaked with black, white, and orange, 

 intermixed with purple tints : its eyes are 

 extremely bright, and its antenna remark- 

 ably long. 



The strong ? sharp kind of sword, which 

 projects from the prawn's head, is doubtless 

 used as a defence against its foes, and, 

 judging by the array of teeth on either side 

 of the sword, it must truly be a useful 

 weapon to its owner. 



When alarmed, the prawn has the power 

 of darting backwards ; this manoeuvre is 

 executed by means of its tail, which 

 consists of five fringed pieces, capable of 

 being expanded, or of overlapping each 

 other, at the will of the prawn. 



The Crustacean known as the Olive 

 Squat, or the Squat-lobster, is also distin- 



