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BY THE DEEP SEA. 



stormy weather. But the Limpet has a broad foot, which 

 exudes a thick glue, whereby it sticks tightly to the rock. 

 Then his muscles are powerful, and by their aid he pulls his 

 conical roof well down till its edges fit into the little pit he has 

 sunk in the rock surface, and thus ensconced he can defy the 

 hardest gale that may chance to blow and the heaviest water- 

 hammers that the sea uses against the land. The Limpet is 



LIMPETS. 



PURPLES. 



typical of the Briton, alike in his tenacity of purpose and his 

 love of privacy. But with all his exclusiveness John Bull likes 

 to open his doors and windows wide to let in the air, and we 

 shall find the Limpet resembling him in this detail ; for if you 

 seek him when the tide is out, you may surprise him with his 

 roof so lifted up that the edges are a quarter of an inch away 



