CHAPTER V. 



i *r nut-Crabs. 



4 Finding on the shoar 



Som handsome shell, whose native lord of late 

 Was dispossessed by the doom of Fate, 

 Therein he enters, and he takes possession 

 Of th' empty harbour, by the free concession 

 Of Nature's law who goods that owner want, 

 Alwaies allots to the first occupant.' 



DU EAKTA6. 



