IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 2G7 
like an umbrella, it looked like a cup. Its long hanging tentacles 
hung from the edge of the cup, and it no longer swam about in the 
water, but sat on the leaves of a water plant. 
It did not live long after this. 
These strange creatures have always been much admired and 
noticed, and have had several names. Because they expand and 
contract as they swam, people who lived long ago called them Sea 
Lungs. 
Because of their disagreeable habit of stinging, they were 
called Sea Nettles. 
Then — as I told you — because of their jelly-like bodies, they 
have been called Jelly-Fishes. 
And besides all these — as if these names was not enough — 
each one has his own proper book name, as learned and unpro- 
nounceable to little mouths as any of them. 
