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Identifier: littlefolksinfea00mill (find matches)
Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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this house — so he is very particular to have it just theright size, and not too heavy for him to drag around. When hefinds one to suit, he goes in tail first, and takes a strong grasp withhis two last legs, which nature—having denied him a house of hisown— has made very handy for this purpose. Once in, it is impos-sible to get him out; he will let himself be torn apart before hewill give up. In fact, he can draw himself so far back into hishouse that you cant get hold of him to pull him out. 234 LITTLE FOLKS Hes a famous fighter. He will fight for a piece of meat, orfor a desirable shell. In fact, a Hermit Crab who secures a par-ticularly nice house, goes through life fighting to keep possessionof it. To see one of these fellows fitting himself to a shell isfunny enough. Hes as particular as a woman hiring a house.He tries it in every way—holding it off to see if it is too large,going in to see if it is big enough. When he is suited, he whisksinto it, and then he is settled.
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Here he is in his house. Do you see that curious lookingthing on his shell, that looks like a short piece of a column with afringe around the top ? Well, that is another animal, that is veryfond of living on tne shell of a Hermit Crab. It is called theCloak Anemone, and though it can live on a stone, it prefers to rideabout. Mr. Gosse — an English naturalist, who has studied theselittle creatures very carefully—says that the Cloak Anemone mayalmost always be found on a Hermits shell. He thinks, too, thatthe Hermit is fond of his companion, for he has seen one, when hegrew too large for his shell, and fitted himself with a new one,carefully take off the anemone from the old shell, and place it com-fortably on the new one, and then give it several little taps with hisbig claws, to settle it. But Mr. Gosse has seen a stranger thing than that, about thisCrab. He has had a Hermit in his aquarium, which had a fellowlodger inside his shell. I will let him tell his own story. When I was f

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