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fro in the water the lobster manages to travel 

 along with some little speed. 



These swimmerets are used for another purpose 

 as well, however, for the mother lobster always 

 glues her eggs to the hairs with which they are 

 fringed, and carries them about with her for some 

 little time. Haven't you noticed, when you have 

 had shrimps for tea, that a good many of them 

 had clusters of eggs underneath their bodies? 

 Well, if you had put one of those shrimps under 

 a microscope, and examined it very carefully, 

 you would have found that every one of the eggs 

 was firmly glued down to one of the hairs on 

 its swimmerets, where it would have remained 

 until it was hatched. And lobsters carry their 

 eggs about with them in just the same way. 



PLATE XXVIII 



THE PRAWN (i) 



If you go down among the rocks when the 

 tide is out, and look into the shallow pools which 

 have been left among them by the retreating 

 waves, you are quite sure to see numbers of 

 shadowy forms darting to and fro through the 

 water. A good many of these will be prawns, 

 and if you catch one or two of them in a small 

 net, and examine them carefully, you will find 



