232 LITTLE FOLKS 
nut — and works his claw around in the hole, till he digs out the 
meat. Another story says that after peeling off the husk, he gets 
his claw into one of the eyes, and beats the nut on a stone till it 
breaks. 
This Crab is more than two feet long, and when walking 
about on his toes, like the common Crabs in the picture, he is a 
foot from the ground. He makes a home for himself by digging 
a hole under the roots of the cocoa-nut tree, lining it with cocoa- 
nut husks, and filling a convenient store-room with nuts laid away 
for winter. 
But here is a very different sort of a Crab, not much like 
those I have been telling about. See what a delicate body he has, 
and what long legs. 
He is a slim Sea Crab, and he runs about on the bottom of 
the sea. 
There are many kinds of Sea Crabs, and very droll fellows 
they are, too. Many of them hide themselves under perfect loads 
of sponge, and other sea things, and a specimen is shown in the 
British Museum of one on which were fastened several oysters — 
actually growing on the Crab's back. 
Besides the Running Crabs there are the Swimming Crabs, who 
have the last pair of feet made flat, and the last joint spread out 
like an oar blade, so that they can swim as well as a fish. Like all 
