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LITTLE FOLKS 
specimen in the British Museum, of an unhappy Star Fish who 
was unable to get rid of the shell he had thus swallowed, and there 
it sticks to this day. 
But to tell how he gets his stomach around his prey. He first 
lays himself down on his victim, and folding his five arms around 
it, he holds it firmly in place. He then begins to push out his own 
stomach through his mouth, and wraps it around the unfortunate 
oyster. Whether some fluid of the stomach makes the shell open, 
or exactly how it is done, is not known, but the result is the death 
of the oyster and a dinner for Mr. Star Fish. 
Some naturalists say that the Star Fish has eyes at the end of 
his arms, while others do not agree to it. But they all agree as to 
the wonderful way in which one of these creatures will reproduce 
