LIFE'S SIMPLEST CHILDREN. 
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that vvc can only glance at those minute specks of 
slime which build their skeletons of flint instead of lime. 
These animals are 
a little higher in 
the world than the 
lime - builders, for 
their body has with- 
in it a small bag or 
capsule, buried in 
the middle of the 
slime (see Fig. 7), 
and in this bag 
the solid grains lie 
very thickly, and 
have sometimes 
small crystals a- 
mong them, while 
in the slime round Immensely magnified, its real size l>einc B I 
• . .X r, larger than a mustard seed. 
it there are often b 
little oil-globules floating. If you dip a g] 
into the quiet bays of Nice or Messina you ma] 
fortunate enough to bring up one or more of these 
little sun-slimes, but they arc so tiny and I .rent 
that even when the light falls upon them you 
only distinguish them as bright specks in the w a 
Their threads stick out stiff and straight; and for 
reason they are all classed under the name 
or ray-like animals. 
Let US look for a moment at 1 
solid skeletons which these Radiolaria build i 
flint (or silex) which they find in minute quant 
the water. We saw that the lime-build< 
The Sun-Slime. •—Hatcktl. 
* rhVMMT. 
