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his ears were torn, and great scratches were all over his face. One 

 eye was quite closed up, and he was so lame that he could ju>t niiui- 

 age to crawl to the kitchen fire. 



/ He scarcely left the front of the fire for days,, and did not wash 

 his face once for & whole week. But he is quite well again now, 

 has grown very big and fat, and .puts on a clean shirt every day. 



ALL KINDS OF CRABS. 



If I should tell you about all the kinds of crabs in the world 

 there would be no space left to tell of their curious habits and ways 

 of life. So I will mention only a few. 



The great red crab frightens one when he suddenly pops out of 

 a hole under the sea- weed. There are some smaller crabs you 

 might not notice. 



Did you ever see the hermit crab? He lives alone in a shell 

 belonging to some other shell-fish. It has been cast off, like an old 

 shoe, and he steps in. He is very brave in his borrowed shell, but 

 a great coward when out of it. He is one of the few that can leave 

 his house when it is too small for him, and seek another. 



The spirit crab glides over the sand so fast that you can't catch 

 him, run as hard as you please. The funniest of all crabs is the 

 fiddler. He lives in a little hole in the sand. He doesn't fiddle ; 

 oh! no; but there is music when he gets hold of your toes! He has 

 two front claws, a big one and a little one. He shakes them at you 

 as much as to say, " You dare not trouble me ! " Then he dives 

 into his hole in the sand, peeping out now and then to shake hjs 



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