United States or Finland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was about half-an-hour after that, that I comes off with the milk for the wardroom mess, and a man named Will Heaviside says to me, `Stapleton, says he, `the first lieutenant has thrown my canvas trowsers overboard, and be damned to him; now I must have them back. `But where be they? says I: `I suppose down at the bottom by this time, and the flat-fish dubbing their noses into them. `No, no, says he, `they wo'n't never sink, but float till eternity; they be gone down with the tide, and they will come back again; only you keep a sharp look-out for them, and I'll give you five shillings if you bring them. Well, I seed little chance of ever seeing them again, or of my seeing five shillings, but as it so happened next tide, the very 'denticle pair of trowsers comes up staring me in the face.
In the first place we may easily ascertain in Leucifer, as was also found to be the case by Claus, that the "green gland" really opens at the end of the process described by Milne-Edwards as a "tubercule auditif" and by Spence Bate as an "olfactory denticle." And, secondly, the position is about as different as it can well be. All the other limbs are usually well developed in the young Isopoda.
Word Of The Day