THE LOBSTER THE SHRIMP SEA LILY SEA ANEMONE SEA-WEED FROND SEA MAT MEDUSA A MEDUSOID PRECIOUS WENTLETRAP COWRIES LESSON I. FIVE-FINGERED JACK.

The Shrimp and Prawn and Lobster are relations of the Crab; these crustaceans, as they are called, are all cased up in a hard crust, which will not stretch the slightest little bit.

To catch some, you must use a "shrimp-net," for they can dart across the pool like arrows.

[Illustration: THE SHRIMP.]

To tell a live Shrimp from a Prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head.

If the beak is quite smooth its wearer is a Shrimp.

When the Prawn or Shrimp is not in a hurry, he swims slowly but surely with the little paddles, or "swimmerets."

They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards.

To move quickly, the Shrimp or Prawn merely bends his body, then straightens it.

You will notice that the Shrimp's eyes are on the end of short stalks.

Shrimps carry their eggs about with them; no doubt you have often found masses of eggs under the Shrimp's body.

Each egg is fastened by a kind of "glue," or else the rapid jerking of the mother Shrimp would soon loosen the eggs and set them free.

The hard, shelly covering of the Shrimp and Prawn is like the armour of the crabit will not stretch in the least.

After much wriggling, the Shrimp appears in a new soft skin.

While the skin is still soft the Shrimp grows very quickly.

Some are caught by men who push a small net over the sands near shore, but most are caught by the shrimp-trawl, a large net cast from a small sailing vessel.

Now and then it casts its coat (like the Crab and Shrimp).

All its wonderful changes, and the way its body is made, tell us plainly that the Barnacle is actually first cousin to the Crab, Lobster, Shrimp and Prawn!

How does the Shrimp swim? 2.

Of what use are Shrimps and Prawns in the sea? 3. How can you tell a live Shrimp from a live Prawn? 4. How does the Barnacle obtain its food? 5.

THIS IS A SHRIMP-LIKE CREATURE CALLED CUMA SCORPIOIDES.

That rat, that shrimp, that spindle-shank, That wren, that sheep-biter, that lean chitty-face, That famine, that lean envy, that all-bones, That bare anatomy, that Jack-a-Lent, That ghost, that shadow, that moon in the wane? AMIN.

Have you ever watched those little sailing-vessels which go a-shrimping?

In the autumn, when the leaves were falling in the wooded grounds of Fellside, the young ladies were sent, still under guardianship of governesses and footmen, to some quiet seaside resort between Alnwick and Edinburgh, where Mary lived the wild free life she loved, roaming about the beach, boating, shrimping, seaweed-gathering, making hard work for the governesses and footmen who had been sent in charge of her.

She will not exchange a sentence with any of the elders, but in the general laugh she chuckles and shrieks like a young Cochin-Chinese chicken learning to crow; and I hear her squealing like a maniac while she is shrimping with the younger ones and Charley.