They collect seaweed for food in the early spring, and dry it and press it into square cakes, which make good food after they have hung long in the sun.

The withdrawal of the waters had compressed the tangled seaweed into a kind of matting, which, bleached by the sun, and nearly an inch thick, covered the whole of the shore, and hung suspended over the stunted bushes which, on my first visit, had been under water.

Ted ate also dried seaweed, chopped and boiled in seal oil, which tasted very much like boiled and salted leather, but he liked it very well.

Mr. Fison, torn by curiosity, began picking his way across the wave-worn rocks, and finding the wet seaweed that covered them thickly rendered them extremely slippery, he stopped, removed his shoes and socks, and rolled his trousers above his knees.

On the reefs lie beautiful seaweeds and shells.

The surf dashed and roared, lifting seaweeds of a blood red, so that in places the water looked pink.

A great number of water-plants grow on its borders; amongst which I particularly noticed a delicate seaweed , as fine as horse hair, but intertwined in such close and endless ramifications that it forms a flooring strong enough to support the largest waterfowl.

They must pluck the black seaweed to fertilize their field.

" "Oh, we must see it!" said Olive, who had finished putting her seaweeds to press; "for as yet I have only read about such a nest.

The Periwinkle rasps the seaweed with his tongue, and so scrapes off his dinner.

"So by night she stole away in a canoe and steered to sea, ere she knew where she was, reaching the seaweeds where she had journeyed with her young husband.

Hows'ever, my own bein' wringin' wet, an' the sun pretty strong just then, I slipped it off an' hitched it atop o' the oar to dry an' be a flag at the same time, till I could rig up some kind o' streamer, out o' the seaweed.

Take a newly painted oil-picture; lay it on its back on the floor, and spread over it, "thinnish," some wet seaweed.

And as he spoke, a huge furious wave swept down the whole length of the gulf by which they stood, roaring and surging along till the whole water seethed, and tearing the seaweeds from their roots in the rock.

" "Sister, I hope you will do no such thing," murmured a young Fairy who lay near twining seaweeds into a wreath.

, Her cheeks were like wine, Her eyes in her wee face Like water-sparks shine, Her niminy fingers Her sleep tresses preen, The which in the combing She peeps out between; Singing down-adown-derry. Down-adown-derry, Shrill, shrill was her tune: "Come to my water-house, Annie Maroon: Come in your dimity, Ribbon on head, To wear siller seaweed And coral instead"; Singing down-adown-derry.