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LITTLE FOLKS 
has a good many. They suck the good out of him as you suck an 
orange. In this way he can eat fishes much bigger than himself. 
He isn't a very nice fellow for a man even to touch. One nat- 
uralist accidentally had his hands entangled in these pretty floating 
cords, and in an instant he felt as though his hand had been plunged 
into boiling oil. 
You'd soon learn to keep your hand cff of things if you had 
much to do with Sea Nettles. And that's a very hard lesson for 
some people to learn. 
Here's a picture of another of the Medusa family. 
Mr. Gosse, an English naturalist, kept a Medusa alive for some 
weeks, and had an opportunity to study its ways. He learned how 
it took its food, and at last he saw a most curious thing. The crea- 
ture deliberately turned itself inside out, and instead of looking 
