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suggest poison, and poison suggests death. For 

 such remote reasons, therefore, a worm is taboo, 

 and from a conventional and probably even an in- 

 herited point of view, ugly and repellent, but no 

 phylum of the animal kingdom can offer a more 

 astounding array of beautiful creatures than does 

 the Annulata. 



The submarine light brought us a particularly 

 fine catch at night. 



