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The larger crab looked at the other. " I should 

 think you would be looking for another shell your- 

 self," he said ; "yours must be a tight fit for you. 

 And more than that it is a very ugly shell. Why 

 didn't you hunt up a pretty one while you were 

 about it ? " 



The smaller crab twiddled his feelers. " Oh I 

 will wait awhile," he said. " Maybe I'll find abetter 

 house without bothering myself to hunt." 



After that wherever the larger crab crawled the 

 smaller one kept close beside him. The big crab 

 was now really hunting for another shell, but none 

 of them seemed just what he wanted. 



" Why don't you try them ? " the little one kept 

 asking him. " Why don't you try them ? " 



" But they're none of them what I want," said the 

 larger crab. 



" How can you tell that ? For all you know, 

 any one of them might do if you were not too lazy 

 to try." 



So he kept on taunting the other with being too 

 lazy to get out of his shell until the larger one be- 

 gan to be quite ashamed. " Well, I will try one," 

 he said at last, " but I know it won't do." 



He unfastened his sucker and crawled out of his 



