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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
jelly mouth like any other living being. Then after 
a time, during which there was built up within the 
disc a stomach, a mouth, and a set of tubes for taking 
in water, the disc with its sprouting arms all at once 
dropped off its rods and swallowed up the jelly-body, 
drawing it in till only a thin film was left over the 
stony star. Then, after swimming about for a little 
time, it settled down upon the rock and wriggled 
about, a tiny Brittle Star-Fish (B, Fig. 32). 
Fig. 33- 
Infancy of the common Star-fish. — Rymer Jones. 
A, Jelly-animal swimming about and the star-fish forming within it 
A', The star-fish settling down. B, The same assuming its true shape, 
No. 3 followed much the same course as No. 2, 
except that his jelly-body had no .rods in it, but 
took a number of curious shapes and swam about 
briskly, while within was formed a young creature 
with a network of lime over his back (A, Fig. ^3)y and 
a number of small soft transparent tubes under his 
body. After a time the whole fell to the bottom of 
the sea, and this little creature also swallowed his jelly 
body, and becoming a tiny yellow rosette with five 
knobs sticking out of it, glided quickly away over 
the rocks, carried along by the little tubes under the 
