108 ANECDOTE. 



diately setting to work, drew from her what ? 

 what do you suppose, reader ? In truth neither 

 more nor less than the body, head, and long antennae 

 of the ' martyr' Hermit-Crab ! whose late sudden 

 disappearance was now fully accounted for. 



There are ten British species of Lobster-Crab, but 

 one only, P. Bernardhus, to which the reader has 

 been introduced, is common to our shores. 



