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ground of which he knew. Coral-Land 
abounded in quantities of good things 
such as fishes love, and Sammy soon 
grew fat, for Gay and Gilt were much less 
greedy than the Pilot, and always shared 
their meals evenly with their friend. It 
did not take him long to learn what to 
enjoy and what to avoid, both in the way 
of food and acquaintances, and he found 
it a most useful form of knowledge. 
Thus he learned to beware of the grace¬ 
ful jelly-fishes who were constantly to be 
met floating about, their long tentacles 
streaming behind, and their umbrella¬ 
shaped disks expanding and contracting 
as they swam, for he knew that the Jelly- 
Fish was a cousin of the Sea-Anemone, 
and that its tentacles could sting most 
unpleasantly. So he admired them from 
a distance, and very beautiful they were, 
especially at night, when their gleaming 
