ON THE SEASHORE***
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Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Seventh Book
ON THE SEASHORE
By R. CADWALLADER SMITH
With Eight Colour Plates And Many Black-And-White Illustrations
CONTENTS
LESSON
I. FIVE-FINGERED JACK
II. A STROLL BY THE SEA
III. BIRDS OF THE SHORE
IV. CRABS
V. SHRIMPS, PRAWNS AND BARNACLES
VI. PLANTS OF THE SHORE
VII. FLOWER-LIKE ANIMALS
VIII. SEA-WEEDS AND SEA-GRASS
IX. THE JELLY-FISH
X. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (1)
XI. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (2)
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COLOUR PLATES
TREASURES OF THE SEASHORE [Missing]
GULLS
THE REDSHANK
HERMIT CRABS FIGHTING
THE COMMON LOBSTER AND HERMIT CRAB
CRUSTACEA
WEST PAN SAND BUOY
SHELLS
BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
COMMON FIVE-FINGERED STARFISH
TEST OR SHELL OF A SEA-URCHIN
THE CRAB
PURSE CRAB
HERMIT CRAB IN WHELK'S SHELL
HERMIT CRAB WITH SEA FLOWERS
THE LOBSTER
THE SHRIMP
SEA LILY
SEA ANEMONE
SEA-WEED FROND
SEA MAT
MEDUSA
A MEDUSOID
PRECIOUS WENTLETRAP
COWRIES
LESSON I.
FIVE-FINGERED JACK.
What fun it is down by the sea at low tide! Scrambling among the slippery rocks, we quickly fill a bucket with curious things. Some are dead, others very much alive; but all have a story to tell us--the story of the life they lead on the bed of the sea, or among the sands and rocks of the shore.
Look, here is a Starfish! It is lying on the sand, left high and dry by the waves, for now the tide is low. The Starfish looks limp and lifeless, its five reddish-coloured "arms" are quite still.
