3SS- APTEKA. 
may be found swimming in the little 
pools, which the ebbing tide leaves in the 
hollows of rocks. You may often see 
there, also, small, but completely formed, 
lobsters, of half an inch in length. 
Lucy, What pretty little red creatures 
they must be ! 
Mother, Lobsters become red by boil- 
ing ; but when alive their colour is black, 
or black beautifully mottled with blue. 
They run very swiftly on their small legs, 
and, if much alarmed, can spring, tail 
foremost, to a distance of thirty feet, and 
repeat these leaps with surprising ra- 
pidity. They have been seen, by fisher- 
men, even to spring from a great distance 
into holes in the rock, though the aper- 
tures were barely the breadth af their bo- 
dies. 
Lucy, Mamma, I think fishermen 
must be greatly amused in observing these 
wonderful things. 
Mother, Intelligent people, of all 
professions, must, no doubt, derive en- 
joy uient from obserfing the suitable ha- 
