The Project Gutenberg eBook, On the Seashore, by R. Cadwallader Smith

Title: On the Seashore

Author: R. Cadwallader Smith

Release Date: December 22, 2003 [eBook #10513]
Most recently updated: July 28, 2012

Language: English

Character set encoding: US-ASCII

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ON THE SEASHORE***

CASSELL'S "EYES AND NO EYES" SERIES

BOOK VII

ON THE SEASHORE

By

R. CADWALLADER SMITH

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

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

CASSELL'S

"EYES AND NO EYES"

Seventh Book

ON THE SEASHORE.

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