THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 



CHAPTER I 

 THE SCHOOL OF THE SHORE 



The Shore of the Sea In Deeper Waters near Shore A 

 Representative Population A Difficult Place to Live in 

 The Struggle of the Shore The Circulation of Matter- 

 Cannibalism in the Cradle Shore Seaweeds Food- 

 getting on the Shore The Story of the Angler The 

 Star-fish and Sea-urchin Fight Shifts for a Living on 

 the Shore Masking A Limb for a Life Colour Camou- 

 flage Love on the Shore The Story of Palolo A Great 

 School. 



IT is interesting to watch a big river rising 

 slowly in flood. The water overtops the 

 banks and spreads foot by foot everywhere, 

 filling every hollow, forgetting no corner. So 

 is it with living creatures ; they spread over all 

 the earth. Life is like a river that is always 

 overflowing its banks. There are no fishes in 

 the Great Salt Lake of Utah, there are no 

 birds swimming on its surface, yet there are 

 brine-shrimps and two or three more living 



