These "crabs" were eight wheeled engines, weighing about 20 tons, with a vertical boiler.

The crab, found in our hedges, is the only variety indigenous to Britain; therefore, for the introduction of other kinds we are, no doubt, indebted to the Romans.

"The crabs are back-sliders, The stock-fish thick-siders, The carps are sharp-set, All the sermon forget; Much delighted were they, But preferred the old way.

But Dick Lee was more than ordinarily averse to any thing like physical pain, and the crab which now had him by the toe was a very muscular and vicious specimen of his quarrelsome race.

"The crabs are back-sliders, The stock-fish thick-siders, The carps are sharp-set, All the sermon forget; Much delighted were they, But preferred the old way.

Another funny Crab is the Spider Crab.