"But I don't have to like 'em any better, do Ibecause I get mad when a l-l-lot of mean, n-nasty girls that have b-b-b-been s-s-spongin' off" She stopped, balked by her infirmity, and appealed to her parents with a silent look of fury.

The spicules are joined together and cemented by a body that has been named "spongin," which has much the same chemical composition as silk, and, like silk, is very elastic.

In some varieties of sponges, especially in the kinds which come into the market, the skeleton is almost entirely composed of fibers of pure "spongin."

Dr. Ledenfeld again illustrated this stage of his lecture by means of a number of microscopic slides in which the variety of shape and size of these spicules and "spongin" fibers were shown.

In some cases the skeleton seems to be more or less replaced by sand, the small grains of which are cemented together by the "spongin.

'The pair of yer spongin' a ride!