calling-crab

Updated: May 23, 2025

And now as if sent to drive away sad thoughts and vain regrets before our feet lay a jest of Nature's, almost as absurd as a 'four- eyed fish, or 'calling-crab. A rough stick, of the size of your little finger, lay on the pitch. We watched it a moment, and saw that it was crawling that it was a huge Caddis, like those in English ponds and streams, though of a very different family.

Charles Kingsley - At Last