HOW SPONGES LIVE. 
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CHAPTER III. 
HOW SPONGES LIVE. 
which ought at 
take .1 piece o 
your hand and 
struck In the lai 
And here were coral bowers, 
And grots of madrepores. 
And banks of sponge, as soft and fair to 
i was mo.-sy bed, 
Whereon the wood-nymphs lie, 
With languid limbs in summer's sultry 1. 
; HEY. 
[ERE arc certainly very few 
pie, from the little child in 
the nursery to the artist in his 
studio, or from the lady in her 
room to the groom in the 
who do not handle a sp 
every day of their lives ; and ; 
>ably, not one in a hundred i>f tl 
people has ever really 1» 
the sponge he or she is u 
considered w hat a CU 
tiful thing it is. 
Vet there are 
in even the common. 
once to attract 
F ordinary honey-comb 
look .it it. you cannot 
ere holes, tew and fai 
