80 SEA FISH; 



during his growth and development, and, like the 

 soldier crab of society, nipping, hustling, and pinching 

 his way from the humble trochus cabin of early 

 youth, short claws, and obscurity, to the whelk-shell 

 mansion of prosperous well-to-do crabhood. 



The hermit crab is to be found on most of our 

 coast line, but particularly on such portions as are 



most thickly inhabited by whelks and other univalve 

 shells. They are generally taken in baskets baited 

 with fish offal, which are laid down for whelks, and to 



