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white ground with a delicate rose-pink. Our captive is a 
beautiful little specimen of the pecten or 
SCALLOP, 
known on the English coasts as the squin, but better known on 
our Scottish shore as the clam. How this name has originated 
I have never heard intelligently explained ; but in passing, 
it may be mentioned that shoemakers use a tool of that 
name for holding their leather in boot-closing purposes. 
The construction of the tool certainly resembles the shell- 
TIIE SCALLOP. 
fish in its essential parts ; but the get-up is such a primitive 
idea that it must have been in use amongst shoemakers many 
generations ago, and the probability is that some philoso- 
phically inclined village souter named the shellfi.-h after the 
familiar tool Through some now mysterious fashion this 
shellfish was said to have had some connection with the 
name of Saint James, cousin of our Lord. In the days of 
the Crusaders, and at subsequent periods, pilgrims to the 
Holy Land and the shrine of the Saint wore the scallop shell 
upon their hats, as an indication of the pilgrimage ; and 
