38 How Sammy Went to Coral-Land 
covered enough from his fright to look 
about him, but presently his ever-present 
curiosity overcame other feelings, and he 
began to examine his new quarters with 
much interest. 
He was in a tiny cave, whose hard 
bottom was covered with sand and mud 
deposited by the constant washing of the 
tide. From the walls and ceiling hung 
curious weeds, and a few brightly colored 
shells lay in little holes and crevices 
formed in the rock. 
While thus employed in viewing his 
surroundings Sammy discovered a crab 
partly hidden in the mud on the floor of 
the cave. It was a very strange-looking 
creature, for while the fore part of it had 
legs and claws like an ordinary crab, the 
rear part was concealed in the shell of a 
large sea-snail. 
As Sammy gazed the crab slowly crept 
