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them you cau frequently see the little animal 

 peeping forth, preparatory to a sally. At another 

 part of the flat, where the thud of your footsteps 

 has not given advance signals of danger, hundreds 

 of these merry crablings are probably busily occu- 

 pied with their out-door labors. Approach them, 

 and away they scamper to their habitations. There 

 are both males and females in the throng, the for- 



FiDDLEB IBdamriui vocalor) 



mer recognizable by the very undue development 

 of one of the claws, which is carried transversely 

 in front of the head. When provoked, the animal 

 brandishes this claw in a somewhat threatening 

 manner, which has been likened to the pulling 

 of a violin-bow — Whence the name of ' fiddler' — and 

 by others to the action of beckoning or calling 

 (hence * calling crabs'). 



Taking the necessary precaution to hold the big 



