58 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 
Asterias miilleri, in which the fully formed 
young ones, skipping the usual free-swimming 
stage in the open water, are carried about on 
the mother’s body. 
A pretty sight is sometimes seen if we watch 
one of the common sand-hoppers (Gammarus 
locusta), an Amphipod crustacean, flattened 
from side to side, which is always busy clean- 
ing up on the shore. If we have caught the 
right kind and put it in a saucer we may see 
quite a crowd of young ones emerging from 
the shelter of the mother’s body, just like 
chickens from under a hen. They swim 
about like miniatures of herself, and as she 
slowly moves they follow, never venturing to 
go farther than an inch away. If we make a 
little splash in the water in the saucer, they 
hurry back below their mother, just like 
chickens again. Looking at this in a broad 
way, through a mental telescope, we see that 
living creatures always answer back to sur- 
rounding difficulties and limitations, and that 
one of the most effective ways of answering 
back is for the parents to look well after the 
children. But who wants “morals” at the 
end of stories! 
