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I suppose Eleanor chose the latter alternative, for she did not call off the dogs, but she took away two or three tin cans with which Mr. Arkwright was laden, and which had made him look like a particularly respectable milkman. "What are they?" she asked. "Crassys," said Mrs. Arkwright, with apparent triumph in her tone, "and Serpulæ, and two Chitons, and several other things."
It looked like spirits or vinegar, but was, as I discovered, seawater for the aquarium. With this I had already made acquaintance, having helped Eleanor to wipe the mouths of certain spotted sea anemones with a camel's-hair brush every day since my arrival. "The Crassys are much more beautiful," she assured me, as we helped Mrs. Arkwright to find places for the new-comers.
"We call them Crassys because their name is Crassicornis. I don't believe they'll live, though, they are so delicate." "I rather think it may be because being so big they get hurt in being taken off the rocks," said Mrs. Arkwright, "and we were very careful with these." "I'm afraid the Serpulæ won't live!" said Eleanor, gazing anxiously with puckered brows into the glass tank. Mrs.
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