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carried in this way, and when the lobster is boiled they 

 turn red, and form what is called the coral, because they 

 look like rows of tiny coral beads. This portable nur- 

 sery is a very nice invention of the lobster, and it saves 

 the mother a deal of trouble. The kangaroos also have 

 a kind of portable nursery for their little ones. The 

 baby lobsters differ greatly from their parents ; their 

 eyes are very large, and set in the head instead of being 

 raised on eye-stalks. They have a great rounded head- 

 shield (carapace) and a small body (Fig, 130). The 



Fig. 130. 

 Head-piece, or Carapace. 



Eye... M „„, 



Tail. 



Young Lobster. 



limbs are not at all like the lobster's ; altogether he 

 looks as if his eyes and head were running away with 

 him. As soon as he is hatched from the egg, he begins 

 to swim about and feed himself, and never goes back to 

 the old nursery or has any thing more to do with the 



