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Title: Shells and sea-life
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Keep, Josiah
Subjects: Shells Shells Mollusks
Publisher: San Francisco : The Whitaker and Ray company (incorporated)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Figure «6. A WATER-TELESCOPE. 181 We kept near the shore, as the life is moreabundant there, and besides, when the water istoo deep, it is hard to see what is going on be-neath you. But when we saw the fishing-boatscome in with their loads of beautiful silver-sidedsalmon, we wished that we might have had atelescope that would have shown us the wondersof the deeper sea. When we stand on the beach and look out overthe waves, we can imagine some of the wonderfulthings that are going on beneath them, but wecannot really see the great fishes darting here andthere in pursuit of their prey, nor observe thebroad pearl-oysters resting on the bottom, norwatch the hundreds of beautiful creatures thathave their home far away from mans sight. And yet we know that they are there, forsometimes the boats let down hooks and dredgesand bring us up a few specimens. And so we
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Figure 87. 182 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. picture to our minds the wonderful ocean home.We think of all that we might see there, if our eyescould only get the chance, and we try to imaginewhat we never can hope to behold. But with the wonderful water-telescope we canreally see a great many of the creatures that livenear the shore, and they seem so much morebeautiful than we had supposed, that we are readyto believe that if we could only live there, weshould find the ocean as rich and interesting andas full of life as the land or the air. I hope that you may all have a chance sometime to go out in what is called the glass-bottomed boat, and if you do, I am sure youwill be surprised and pleased to observe whatwonderful plants and animals live beneath theblue waves. BLACKBOARD WORDS. telescope (tele-skop), astronomer (as-trono-mer), con-venient (kon-venyeiit), concerned (kon-sernd), canopy(kano-py), scythe (sitli), shiners (shiners), aquarium(a-quari-Qm). THE HARVEST OF THE SEA. KALEVIMA

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