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guineas. Generally the pearls of this country are 

 inferior in the two requisites of colour and size. 



Interesting accounts of Pearls and Pearl-fishing, 

 will be found in "The Penny" and "Saturday 

 Magazines/' and many other works easy of access. 

 There our young readers may learn of the perils 

 and dangers to which the poor divers are exposed 

 from the voracious sharks, which Jiover about the 

 fishing grounds, and make a dash at their victim, 

 heedless of the written charms with which the priest 

 or shark-charmer has provided him previous to his 

 descent, and of much more than we can find space 

 here to tell. All we can now do is to give the 

 portrait, as drawn by Thomas Hood, of a lady 

 who takes up her abode in all the pearl-producing 

 bivalves, and who is, therefore, perhaps on this 

 account, called 



MOTHER OF PEARL. 



