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them have a pair of slender arms for catching 

 food. 



We always loved to have them come and tell us 

 stories of what they saw while they were swim- 

 ming near the surface, of birds and boats and 

 bathers, and of the funny times the boys had when 

 they were learning to swim. 



Sometimes they would coax us to reach out our 



little fingers and 

 untie our cords and 

 take a swim. We 

 were often willing 

 to do this in fine 

 weather, and many 

 a famous j ourney we 

 have taken, some- 

 times visiting other 

 species of pectens 

 that have their 

 home far out from 



Figure 24. the shore. The pic- 



ture of one of these is shown in Figure 24. His 

 color is pink, and his shell is much prettier than 

 ours. Again, we would follow another kind, 

 which look like Figure 25, but some of them once 

 ventured too near a piece of marsh-land, and got 

 stranded when the tide turned. 



