Yale Courant. ~O Hero.~ Out into the mud and the wet he goes, My hero, tall and strong; Under his jersey the muscle shows, And, Samson-like, his dark hair grows Delightfully thick and long.

[Footnote: I allude to mineral salts as found in the vegetable kingdom, not to the manufactured salts, like the ordinary table salt, etc., which are simply poisons when taken as food.] fats and oils, carbo-hydrates (starch and sugar), and proteids (the flesh and muscle-forming elements).

The plants of this class are almost all of them poisonous; the finest opium is procured by wounding the heads of large poppies with a three-edged knife, and tying muscle-shells to them to catch the drops.

Again she listened, never moving a muscle.

But his daughter stood there breathless and silent, not daring to move a muscle.

The hours swept along, but Imber did not vary his posture, did not by a hair's-breadth move a muscle; and Dickensen remembered the man who once sat upright on a sled in the main street where men passed to and fro.

He smote the broad chest with his knuckles, and pressed and prodded the thick muscle-pads that covered the shoulders like a cuirass.

I could chop and saw without it next day, just as well as she could do the ironing, to say nothing of my being a great stout fellow,there wasn't a chap for ten miles round with my muscle,and she with those blue veins on her forehead.

One quick and earnest prayer he breathed to the invisible Power, whose hand could protect him in that dread momentthen, retiring a single pace, and screwing every nerve and muscle in his body to the utmost tension, he made a step in advance, and threw himself forward into the dark and fearful void.

It was a severe trial of skill and muscle.

We continued to strain every muscle till we were hard upon the whale.

"Every nerve and muscle in my frame was stretched to the utmost tension.

But I felt that this could not last long; every muscle and fiber of my frame was called into action, and human nature could not long bear up under such exertion.

It is a remarkable fact that the intermediate bones sloughed away, and the arm, connected only by flesh and muscle, was still, by means of a silver tube affixed around it, capable of exertion.

I was very powerful; but never was in a situation where I felt more sensibly the need of exerting all my muscle.

You have a muscle or two which you have no command of, between your cheek-bone and your lips, that should carry one corner of your mouth up towards your crow's-foot, and that down to meet it.

With a quick eye and a powerful muscle, he sends the arrow as unerringly as the archers of olden time.

"And very motherly," said Hardy, without moving a muscle.

The Tyrian purple is still furnished by a muscle found upon the coast, but Tyre is now only noted for its tobacco and mill-stones.

There was no sign that this threat had made the easy traveller tighten a single muscle.

"He will?" she repeated, like one marvelling, in the tautness of every nerve and muscle, that she had the power of speech.

"Now, Pete Leddy, do not move a muscle!"

"Hannibal," said the man, without the flicker of a facial muscle.

Nor were many hours allowed to pass when, decayed and defaced as it was, it was consigned to a coffin without Mr. Dodds being able to bring his resolution to the sticking point of trying to recognise in the confused mass of muscle and bone, forming what was once a face, the lineaments of her who had been once his pride, and now, by his own act, had become his shame and condemnation in the sight of Heaven.

They were well trained, swift, fresh, keen-scented, 'excellent' men-hunters, and though the poor fugitive in his frenzied rush for liberty, strained every muscle, yet they gained upon him, and after dashing through fens, brier-beds, and the tangled undergrowth till faint and torn, he sinks, and the blood-hounds are upon him.

This spot seemed to be much frequented by the natives, and large quantities of mussel-shells lay around their fires.

Many small springs rose in the limestone rock and ran into the creek, on the banks of which large quantities of mussel-shells showed the frequent camps of the blacks.

Altering the course to north-east, the country was covered with melaleuca scrub, with silver-leafed ironbark, triodia, and a little grass; but we soon re-entered the open plains which extended to the north, and, following a watercourse at 3.5 p.m. camped at a small muddy waterhole, on the banks of which the blacks had often encamped, as shown by the heaps of mussel-shells round their fireplaces.

On the banks of the lagoon passed in the morning large heaps of mussel-shells showed the spots where, from the vast accumulation, the blacks had for many centuries camped successively on the same spots, and a well-beaten footpath along the bank showed that it was a favourite resort of the aboriginals.

This is, however, easily accounted for, as the country had been inundated last season, though the current had not been sufficiently strong to remove some emu bones and mussel shells which lay round a native camping place within a few yards of the spot.

The Starfish merely presses the mussel into its mouth, cleans out the shells, and throws them away.

It now looks more like a tiny mussel.

2. EDIBLE MUSSEL.

SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (2) THE MUSSEL AND OYSTER.

As everyone knows, the Mussel and the Oyster live between two hinged shells.

Have you noticed how the Mussel anchors himself?

Now the threads are fixed by the foot, just where the Mussel wishes to anchor himself.

The Mussel which makes such long anchor-threads might be called "the silkworm of the sea.

The Mussel or Oyster, with shells gaping wide open, is bound to get some of this food with the water which enters the shells.

How does the Mussel anchor itself?

What is the food of the Mussel? 4.

These strata alternate with banks of clay and coarse-grained soil, which contain scanty and badly preserved imprints of leaves and mussel-fish.

The rice is cut halm by halm (as in Java) with a peculiarly-formed knife, or, failing such, with the sharp-edged flap of a mussel

A small mussel has pierced the clay banks at the water-line, in such number that they look like honeycombs.

Large quantities of small mussel shells (Cypraea moneta) were sent at this period to Siam, where they are still used as money.

Large heaps of oyster, mussel, and cockle shells were found, amongst them, says Cook, "being some of the largest oyster shells I ever saw."

In one cavern at the point of Mussel Bay," he adds, "I disturbed some thousands of birds, and found as many thousands of living shell-fish scattered on the surface of a heap of shells, that for aught I know, would have filled as many thousand wagons."

"I'll crush the podies like a mussel shells.

Although as completely naked as the others we had met, the members of this band were more ornamented with beads, and wore earrings made from the inside of mussel-shells or very big snail- shells.

Investigations made to ascertain the cause show the poisonous part of the mussel to be the liver.