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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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ing. The crea-ture deliberately turned itself inside out, and instead of looking IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 2G7 like an umbrella, it looked like a cup. Its long hanging tentacleshung from the edge of the cup, and it no longer swam about in thewater, but sat on the leaves of a water plant. It did not live long after this. These strange creatures have always been much admired andnoticed, and have had several names. Because they expand andcontract as they swam, people who lived long ago called them SeaLungs. Because of their disagreeable habit of stinging, they werecalled Sea Nettles. Then — as I told you — because of their jelly-like bodies, theyhave been called Jelly-Fishes. And besides all these — as if these names was not enough—each one has his own proper book name, as learned and unpro-nounceable to little mouths as any of them. 208 LITTLE FOLKS MORE WONDERS. What would you think, to see sailing along in the sea, twopear-shaped crystal bodies, with a long string of pearls hanging
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from it, and from every pearl a silver thread—as you see in thepicture! If I should tell you it was a fish, would you believe it? IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 2G9 Or if you saw a string of soap bubbles, four or five incheslong, and floating after it in the water a long scarlet cord, withelegant silver fringe, and scattered all over with exquisite beads ! And if I should tell you the dainty thing was alive ! And if you should see a cluster of crystal beads, more lovelythan any you ever saw, with a long rose-colored ribbon hangingfrom it, and a splendid silvery fringe from each side of the ribbon ! If I should tell you it was an animal, and could eat!

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