THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 
CHAPTER I 
THE SCHOOL OF THE SHORE 
The Shore of the Sea—In Deeper Waters near Shore—A 
Representative Population—A Difficult Place to Live in— 
The Struggle of the Shore—The Circulation of Matter— 
Cannibalism in the Cradle—Shore Seaweeds—Food- 
getting on the Shore—The Story of the Angler—The 
Star-fish and Sea-urchin Fight—Shifts for a Living on 
the Shore—Masking—A Limb for a Life—Colour Camou- 
flage—Love on the Shore—The Story of Palolo—A Great 
School. 
T is interesting to watch a big river rising 
slowly in flood. The water overtops the 
banks and spreads foot by foot everywhere, 
filling every hollow, forgetting no corner. So 
is it with living creatures; they spread over 
all the earth. Life is like a river that is always 
overflowing its banks. There are no fishes in 
the Great Salt Lake of Utah, there are no 
birds swimming on its surface, yet there are 
brine-shrimps and two or three more living 
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