50 GLIMPSES OF NATURE. 



and discuss the enormities and iniquities of steam 

 trawlers in the monosyllabic and disjointed style of 

 talk which characterises folk who spend most of their 

 lives at sea. For your fisherman is a thoughtful soul, 

 who dislikes being hurried over his talk, and who 

 requires time to think out his ideas, and to express 

 them in words. There is nothing doing to-day in 

 the village, and I betake myself to the end of the 

 pier, and enjoy the ozone and the fair prospect 

 before me. 



You are always certain to find food for reflection 



Fig. 16. A "Sea-fir." 



at Newhaven, however, if you are that way inclined. 

 The pier to-day is littered with what I suppose the 

 non-scientific mind would call seaweed. They lie in 

 thick masses at one's feet as they have been stripped 

 off the lines of the fishermen. Let us pick up a piece 

 of this " seaweed" (fig. 16) and note its structure. 



You observe it resembles a fir-tree in miniature. 

 Its total length is about four inches, and you note 

 that it grows rooted and fixed like any plant on 



