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lamps burning at once, and every wave as it rose 
and fell was all aglow with Nature’s fireworks, 
which do not burn the fingers, and leave no smell 
of sulphur. 
So the little Favosites kept scudding along in 
the water, dodging from one side to the other to 
avoid the ugly creatures that tried to eat him. 
There were crabs and clams of a fashion neither 
you nor I shall ever see alive. There were huge 
animals with great eyes, savage jaws like the beak 
of a snapping turtle and surrounded by long 
feelers. They sat in the end of a long round shell, 
shaped like a length of stove-pipe, and glowered 
like an owl in a hollow log; and there were smaller 
ones that looked like lobsters in a dinner-horn. 
But none of these caught the little fellow, else I 
should not have had this story to tell. 
At last, having paddled about long enough, 
Favosites thought of settling in life. So he looked 
around till he found a flat bit of shell that just 
suited him. Then he sat down upon it and grew 
fast, like old Holger Danske in the Danish myth, 
or Frederic Barbarossa in the German one. He 
did not go to sleep, however, but proceeded to 
make himself a home. He had no head, but be- 
tween his shoulders he made an opening which 
would serve him for mouth and stomach. Then 
he put a whole row of feelers out, and commenced 
catching little worms and floating eggs and bits of 
jelly and bits of lime, — everything he could get, — 
and cramming them into his mouth. He had a 
great many curious ways, but the funniest of them 
all was what he did with the bits of lime. He kept 
