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markable, as the boys tested on many occasions. 

 When placed on the floor of the little office, they 

 invariably crawled in the direction of the door 

 which led into the water. How these helpless 

 turtle infants knew the water was there puzzled 



The lophius. 



the boys. When Tom would open the door they 

 would crawl toward it, tumble into the water, 

 and go paddling off. 



The time was not all passed upon the water, 

 though nearly every day an excursion of some 



