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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Don't mention it," returned the Star-Fish, affably. "I make it my business to know the manner of life and habits of the creatures I live upon, and a good deal about those I have to avoid, and it will give me great pleasure to give you any information in my power. And above all things beware of that old hypocrite the Hermit-Crab, and all his family."
There one could nestle, self-contained as a hermit-crab in a shell, defying east wind or baking sun, happy with a book, or the person one liked best in a twin wind-stoel opposite. Reposeful gaiety seemed at this first glance to be the note struck by Scheveningen, and the air was buoyant as I had never known air to be before.
Finally, however, he wearied of the sport, and sensing the sad fact that his prize was in no wise edible, he dropped it suddenly to pursue an unsuspecting hermit-crab. The girls fell joyfully upon the long-sought treasure and bore it to the veranda of Curlew's Nest for further examination. "What under the sun can it be?" marveled the curious Phyllis.
Almost under this trunk, only his rear quarters visible, was the form of Rags, digging frantically at a great hole in the wet sand. So deep now was the hole that the dog was more than half buried. "There's Rags! He's after another hermit-crab!" cried Leslie. "I was wondering where he could be."
Kotzebue's First Voyage, vol. iii. p. 222. The large claws or pincers of some of these crabs are most beautifully adapted, when drawn back, to form an operculum to the shell, nearly as perfect as the proper one originally belonging to the molluscous animal. I was assured, and as far as my observations went I found it so, that certain species of the hermit-crab always use certain species of shells.
They both raced up to him and reached him just as he had apparently attained the end of his quest and backed out of the hole. "Why, what has he got?" exclaimed Phyllis. "That's no hermit-crab!" And in truth it was not. For out of the hole the dog was dragging a small burlap sack which plainly contained some heavy article in its folds!
In one I saw the large pincher of the crab so drawn back as to form a door to the shell as perfect as the original. When he felt growing pains the hermit-crab unhooked himself from his ceiling and migrated in search of a more commodious dwelling.
'The natural curiosity which forms the sole ornament of my professional museum, he resumes, 'hereupon desires his Secretary an individual of the hermit-crab or oyster species, and whose name, I think, is Chokesmith but it doesn't in the least matter say Artichoke to put himself in communication with Lizzie Hexam. Artichoke professes his readiness so to do, endeavours to do so, but fails.
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