All the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all 

 the fanciful men, in the world, with all the old German bogy- 

 pai liters into the bargain, could never invent . . . anything 

 so curious, and so ridiculous, as a lobster. 



CHARLES KINGSLEY, The Water-Babies. 



I'.. i. Spider, thou art like the poet poor, 



Whom thou hast help'd in song, 

 iiotli busily, our needf'ul food to win, 



We work, as Nature taught, with ceaseless pains, 

 Thy bowels thou dost spin, 

 I spin my braius. 



SOUTHEY, To a 



l.:t-i <iYr the tii-ld the .Mitr enormous swims, 

 Swells his red heart, and writhes his giant limbs. 



ERASMUS DARWIN, The Temple <J Zulu re. 



