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ve have him with one that it chewed down to a set of shortened spokes j 
— then we would try him on a brittle star, and finally feed him a very 
large cl«aa to see if he could hat^dle it, (one of the boys had four^ a 
big clam under a rock). During this time we would be shooting appropriate 
etille. After we had finished with the lobster we would turn to the big 
hermit and try to pick up son® better plctxares of his efforts to get him- 
self into a new shell. We would do some atllls of that, also, A neat, 
tidy program. 
!rhe first thing I noticed when we arrived at the shooting location 
was that the front screen on th® shooting enclosure was lying flat out , 
on the ground. It l:®.d not been secured well enough against the heavy 
surges of the past few days, evidently. The lobster was nowhere in si^t, 
of course. And the hermits were missing also. That took care of the 
well-planned day of shooting. 
Flret-off, to find ovr friendly lobster. Three sets of lobster feelers 
were sticking out from the shelter of the big boulderi one irore than had 
been left by the fisherman who had raided the reef a few days ago. Perhaps 
our lobster owned one set of these feelers, and the day would not be lost, 
, i 
I took scuffle minnow and tested these fellows. They all were strangers — 
I 
and they wanted to be left alone, Tl®y straight -aanned m with their feelers 
whenever I came close, and they were not the least interested in ray minnow. 
However, Tom got a long piece of wire coathanger that we used for 
various chores, went around to the far side of the boulder and tickled 
the backsides of the lobsters with it. One of them couldn't take it, and 
came prancing out. I picked him up in a net and dumped him in the shooting 
enclosure. He backed into the coral setting and sat there looking gltun. 
