DIALOGUE XLUI. 
CANCER, OR CRAB. C. PACURUS, OJ^ 
COMMON CRAB. C. BERNHARDUS^ OR 
HERMIT CRAB. C PINNOTHERES. , 
MOTHER. This morning I shall 
entertain you with the genus of cancffy 
or crab. 
Lucy. The crab I I always thought; 
crabs were fish, and not insects. 
Mother. No, Lucy, they are not fish ; 
nor indeed are they insects, according to 
the arrangements of modern naturalists, 
who have removed from that class many 
of the animals which it formerly con- 
tained. For instance, the last great 
family we described, the spider, has 
