SOME CREEPING THINGS. 



|OME, John and Augustus, and Mary and 

 Pauline, get your hats, and a 

 dipper and a pail, and some 

 big fruit-jars. The tide is low 

 .this morning, and we will see 

 what is alive down on the 

 wet rocks. Scatter yourselves 

 around, and let each one find something. Then 

 bring them all here, and we will sit down and ex- 

 amine them. 



Well done, John; you are 

 the first to return, and you 

 brought what I expected 

 would come first, a Star- 

 fish. \Mary comes next, 

 with a Ska-urchin; Augus- 

 tus has a Sea-anemone at- 

 tached to a small stone; 

 and little Pauline has her 

 hand full of something 

 which I cannot just make 

 out. But put them all 



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REFERENCE TOPICS. 



It would be well for the 

 teacher to have as many 

 specimens as possible to il- 

 lustrate these lessons. If the 

 real creatures cannot be ob- 

 tained, books of natural his- 

 tory would be desirable. 



Start a small school cabi- 

 net, if it has not been done 

 already. 



Various kinds of teeth. 

 What is a land-urchin? 

 What is a land-anemone? 

 Other radiates. 



