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BY THE DEE? SEA. 



variety of living rubbish ; but they do not get themselves so be- 

 daubed with mud on a coast where mud has to be searched for 

 if wanted. He has really made it one of the objects of his life to 

 collect that mud, particle by particle, and entangle it in the lux- 

 uriant crop of hair with which he is covered. He is a little fellow 

 only measuring about half an inch from back to front edges 



SCALY SQUAT-LOBSTER. 



BROAD-CLAW. 



of the carapace and I suppose, were he built upon the same 

 plan as other crabs, he would be smaller, if only the same 

 quantity of material were to be allowed ; for he is flattened out, 

 and looks as though he had at one time formed part of a 

 travelling show and the fat woman had sat upon him. His 

 body is flat, but his pincer-claws are flatter, and the area of 



