Teach you to catch crabs.

"I was so anxious to find this particular crab.

Then he made a running bowline, and slipped the loop on to the shaft of the boat hook, after which he held out the boat hook, after the fashion of a fishing rod, over the place where I had seen the crab.

The next morning when the labourer looked for his yoke ropes, he missed one; and then he remembered that he had used it to tie up the crab; so he went to the place and found his rope.

But just see him pull in crabs!

They reached the old orchard, and ran about among the trees picking up applesnow the little soft yellow crab applesthen the huge, round, ruddy pippinsnext the golden-coat bell apples, oblong and mellow, which had dropped from pure ripeness from the autumn boughs.

Of course no crab of spirit is going to receive an insult before his beloved and not resent it; with one painful quiver of his little legs, he sets the lady crab down, and then the two amorous lovers proceed to deadly combat.

He would meddle with the creatures, frighten the crabs, and put stones in the anemones' mouths to make them fancy dinner was coming.

In hunting a crab he found himself once more in the mysterious grotto that glittered with jewel-like flowers.

SEE Cedar Creek steamed crabs.

I have been down the river three or four times already with some other freshmen, and it is glorious exercise, that I can see, though we bungle and cut crabs desperately at present.

Did they have despatched crabs for supper every night?

He set to work and dug out the crab and fixing it in his pagri continued his journey.

She was lying near him, her limbs bruised with fruitless attempts to leave the cave, and no longer strong enough to drive away the crabs that were feeding upon her quivering flesh.

How many crabs can one man eat?"

And, to perswade ye that welcome ye bee, Wilt please ye sir to eate a crab with mee? Phy.

I fancied all the crabs in the Mediterranean rolling on their backs in silent laughter, and raising their claws to heaven, imploring Jove for a thunderbolt!

" And forgetting the salmon, as they had a moment before forgotten the crabs and sledges, these two children of the wild, following every breeze and bird call and blossoming bluebell and shining star alike, tumbled ashore and went hurrying up the brook, splashing through the shallows, darting like kingfishers over the points, and jumping like wild goats from rock to rock.

"I say, Dick, how'll I scoop you in?" "Has you done got all de crabs?" "Every pinner of 'em.

Then the bo'sun sung out to us to haul the crab aboard, that we had it most securely; yet on the instant we had reason to wish that we had been less successful; for the creature, feeling the tug of our pull upon it, tossed the weed in all directions, and thus we had full sight of it, and discovered it to be so great a crab as is scarce conceivablea very monster.

You mustn't jerk the crab loose.

I dasn't kerry home no crabs.

But now aunt, dear, see this fine crab, you like crabs; old Peter Varley sent it to you, the old man you knitted the guernsey for in the winter.

Say" she looked up eagerly"ain't he the darndest old crab you ever saw in your life?" "Why, I" "Ain't he?

It is their taste for waste scraps of food that makes crabs of use in the sea.