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and can't get around ; but lives and dies, a beautiful feathery or 
plant-like animal. But strangest of all, its babies are like their 
grandmother. 
One of the family is quite famous as the Portuguese man-of- 
war. It looks like a floating bladder a foot long, of transparent crystal 
and blue. On top, stands a sail or comb, with red edges, and under 
the water, hang long streamers, blue and violet-colored. They can 
be stretched out eighteen or twenty feet ; but pretty as they look, 
they're very dangerous to little fishes. As soon as he touches one 
of these garlands of death, he is seized and paralyzed. Then the 
streamers roll up and carry him to the mouths, of which this beauty 
