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CHAPTER VIII. 
THE MAILED WARRIORS OF THE SEA WITH RINGED 
BODIES AND JOINTED FEET. 
" Strong suits of armour round their bodies close, 
Which, like thick anvils, blunt the force of blows ; 
In wheeling marches form'd, oblique they go 
With harpy claws their limbs are armed below ; 
Fell shears the passage to their mouth command, 
From out their flesh their bones by nature stand, 
Broad spread their backs, their shining shoulders rise ; 
Unnumber'd joints distort their lengthened thighs ; 
With stony gloves their hands are firmly cased ; 
Their round black eyeballs in their bosom placed ; 
On eight long feet the wondrous warriors tread, 
And either end alike appears a head ; 
These, mortal wits to name as ' Crabs ' agree 
The gods have other names for things than we." 
"BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE." 
AVING now arrived at the sixth 
and largest division of the whole 
animal kingdom, we are going to 
leave behind us those low and 
scattered tribes, which live as it 
w r ere in a dreamy unconscious 
way, tossed hither and hither by 
outward circumstances, and having 
but feeble nerves to guide them ; 
and for the future shall have to do 
with beings gradually struggling 
into active intelligent life. 
No one can watch the beautiful 
transparent prawn, with his bright 
eyes gleaming, and his antennae 
trembling in the water, without feeling that we have 
