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LITTLE FOLKS 
These creatures do not care for deep water, and are often 
found clinging to the under side of stones just in the edge of the 
sea. When the stone is turned over, the curious little animal looks 
like a shapeless mass of jelly. Some of them are not as large as a 
pin's head, but transparent as glass. Others look like masses of 
ice. The eyes are minute specks around the two openings into 
this very strange bag. 
The Tunicates are divided into Solitary, Social and Compound 
Tunicatcs. Here is a picture of one of the Social Ttmicates, where 
several of a family, though 
entirely separate from each 
other, are attached to the same 
stalk. This looks even less like 
an animal than the other. It 
resembles some strange plant, 
but you see each individual has 
the bag-like body, and the two 
openings into it. 
Of the Compound Tuni- 
cates there are several very 
interesting varieties — one called 
Starry, because of the star 
shape into which the family 
forms itself. From six to 
twenty of these creatures will 
be found united in a common 
center, so as to form a star, 
each with his own organs, and 
living on his own account. If 
you touch one bag, one animal 
will contract itself ; but if you 
touch the center, all will con- 
tract. The mouths are on the 
outside, or circumference of the 
star. This compound animal is 
fixed in one place. 
But another branch of the family called Pyrosena, (which 
means " Fire Body" ) because 01 the beautiful light they give out, 
floats about, and is one of the most beautiful objects to be seen in 
the wonderful sea. The light is so strong that when floating in 
