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If, as sometimes happens, the anemone becomes de- 

 tached from the shell inhabited by the hermit crab, 

 the latter takes it carefully and tenderly in its claws 

 and replaces it. 



A WAEU HOUSE, 



AND THE FOOD PREPARED IN IT. 



Houses are really indispensable in proportion to 

 the inclemency of climate. They are needed most, 

 perhaps, as shelters against wet and cold weather. 

 Of course, they have many other uses to us ; but it 

 may be imagined that even a person accustomed to 

 civilized life could more easily do without one where 



" The skies never weep and the leaves never die," 



than here in our own land, to say nothing of those 

 parts of the world where the climate is more severe. 



The native Indian of Guiana has no conception of 

 home in our sense of the word. It would be impos- 

 sible to give him or any other savage an idea of the 

 meaning the word has to us. It is one of the most 

 complex of words, and belongs alone to our race and 

 civilization. 



In the same way the word houseless, which de- 

 scribes as forlorn and pitiable the condition of 



" The houseless wretch for whom no hearthstone glows," 



means little or nothing to people whose houses are 

 mere temporary cabins put up with at most but a few 



