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Title: The children's city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther
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Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ge. The Pipe-fish is another curious creature, witha long pipe-like snout. Owing to the way he standson his head and tumbles about, people have com-pared him to a clozmi. You know lobsters and crabs very well; but theHermit Crab is a peculiar individual. He has noshell on his body, and, therefore, he has to findsome protection for himself. He goes off house-hunting and when he finds an empty shell that suitshim exactly, he takes possession of it. He has twosmall hooks at the end of his body and with thesehe catches hold of one of the spirals of the shellwhich he intends to occupy; and as his body ismore like that of a worm than a crab, he is able tosquirm into the spiral shell and fit himself into itscoils. When he outgrows this shell, he has to huntfor a new house; and so he crawls out of his oldquarters and goes off house-hunting again. An ob-server who has seen the hermit-crab hunting for anew residence says: When a hermit desires tochange his habitation he goes through a series of
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o THE AQUARIUM 49 performances, which, if he had hands, we shouldbe disposed to call manipulations. A shell lies onthe ground and the hermit seizes it with his clawsand feet, twists it about with wonderful dexterity,as if testing its weight; and having examined everyportion of its exterior, he proceeds to satisfy him-self about the interior. For this purpose, hepushes his fore legs as far into the shell as theywill reach, and probes, with their assistance, everyspot that can be touched. If this examination sat-isfies him, he whisks himself into the shell withsuch rapidity that he seems to have been acted uponby a spring. He is a terrible fighter and when he meets oneof his fellows, a big battle takes place. They rollover each other like two dogs and use their clawswith great violence. The King Crab has been also called the Horse-foot and the Sauce-pan on account of its shape. Itis a slow, stupid thing, burrows below the surfaceof the sand or mud, and is found on the coastfrom Maine to

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