14C GLAUCUS ; OR, 



those who wish to carry out the notion thor- 

 oughly cannot do better than buy his book, and 

 take their choice of the many different forms of 

 vase, with rockwork, fountains, and other pretty 

 devices which he describes. 



But the many, even if they have Mr. Gosse's 

 book, will be rather inchned to begin with a small 

 attempt ; especially as they are probably half 

 sceptical of the possibility of keeping sea-animals 

 inland without changing the water. A few 

 simple directions, therefore, will not come amiss 

 here. They shall be such as any one can put 

 into practice, who goes down to stay in a 

 lodging-house at the most cockney of watering- 

 places. 



Buy at any glass-shop a cylindrical glass jar, 

 some six inches in diameter and ten high, which 

 will cost you from three to four shillings ; wash 

 it clean, and fill it with clean salt-water, dipped 

 out of any pool among the rocks, only looking 

 first to see that there is no dead fish or other 

 evil matter in the said pool, and that no stream 

 from the land runs into it. If you choose to 

 take the trouble to dip up the water over a boat's 

 side, so much the better. 



So much for your vase ; now to stock it. 



