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length the writhing mass that was rapidly de- 



creasing in size. 



" Get it over the dinghy, quick," the doctor 

 said, "or there won't be anything left. It is 

 only a star-fish." 



Harry secured what remained merely a 

 round body, with several arms. " I thought I 

 had a nest of young sea-serpents," he said. 



The basket-fish ( Aster opliy tori). 



"It is the basket star-fish," explained the 

 doctor; "and these are its arms, branched in 

 every direction, and certainly snake-like." 



