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soBBSthing red dashed may from each skewered urchin. I asked her if it 
could have been a small crab. She said no, it was more like a polywog 
with a tall on it. Drew a picture on the sand as an illustration. So 
this afternoon I gathered son® of her urchins, and have them in a bucket 
on the porch. Hothing has come out of any of them so far. And nothing 
fled frcBjj those we speared at the same tin®, I told our neighbor that 
possibly what she saw was a figment. I hope not. I hope it is something 
iBore tangible — and something that can be photographed. We shall see. 
The motion picttjre camera with the 100-itaa lenses ikjw is ready to 
record very small things. I have exter^ed the lenses with half- inch 
tihes, giving m a field of one-and-one-qmrter inches at a distance 
of about fifteen iiMhes. That puts the infinity of that canssra at about 
three feet, but I can use the wide-angle cait®ra for things that require 
the long view. Now if my caa^ra stand is steady enou^ to hold down 
vibration it should be possible to do some very fancy shooting. 
But aside from the rain, we sire handicapped by having only one boat. 
This lAck has not been serious up to now, avd Mr, Francis (the man who 
has charge of the house and its upkeep) has been promising to let us use 
his boat for the suamjer — charges unspecified bttt presumably low. Son® 
sort of work must be done on the boat first, however — this work also 
vague in character. Somehow the worfc is never finished. "Jxist a few 
days jttore" is the usual answer. Today the propeller flew off the boat 
we have. lAwkily it did its flying in shallow water and the boys recovered 
it. But the nut that locked it on was not to be foxmd. They went to 
