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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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e little Mussels are about as large as a bean, they aretransplanted to the most favorable place for growth, and when theyare old enough to live in the air for hours at a time, they are trans-planted again. Sometimes they are moved three times before theyare taken to market. 256 LITTLE FOLKS This Mussel farming neighborhood sends out every year nearlytwo and a half millions of dollars worth of its live product. From July to January is the season for Mussel eating, andthen the people are busy enough. The farmers—if you can callthem so — gather a boat load of Mussels and bring them home,when their wives take them and wash, and pack them in basketsand panniers, to go on the backs of pack horses or by carts totheir market. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 257 THE BABY THAT LIVES IN A BOX. There are a good many funny things going on in the sea. Wouldnt you like to go down there, and spend a day watchingthe wonderful creatures that live there ? If you didnt have tobreathe, you might do it with ease.
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One queer little fellow, whose home is in the bottom of thesea, lives in a cunning little box, about as big as an eggshell. Heis called a Sea Urchin, and there are several curious things about 17 258 LITTLE FOLKS him. In the first place, he always lives in one house—the First ofMay is nothing to him. When he is a baby, about as big as a pea,the house is just big enough for him, and when he grows as big asan egg, the same house has to do for him. Of course, it has to be made bigger, and it isnt done as wemake our houses larger, by adding wings, building a story higher,or an addition behind. He just goes to work and enlarges hishouse all over. Although it looks like a box, and seems to be madeof one piece, like an eggshell, it is in fact, made of six hundredpieces, fitting so nicely together that one can scarcely see wherethey join. This curious little Sea Urchin finds lime in the seawater, and he takes it and enlarges his house at every joint, evenlyand regularly, so that it is alway

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