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Updated: May 21, 2025
He took advantage of every high tide to strip the reefs of everything that the ship-wreck had distributed among them. He went from rock to rock, picking up whatever the sea had scattered tatters of sail-cloth, pieces of iron, splinters of panels, shattered planking, broken yards; here a beam, there a chain, there a pulley. He lived upon limpets, hermit-crabs, and rain-water.
Hermit-crabs of several species and sizes were scuttling about searching for convenient shells in which to deposit their naturally homeless and tender tails.
Everything queer seems to happen right around that place." "That's so! I'd almost forgotten the other thing. But what I can't understand is how your dog happened to dig the thing up." "Oh, that's simple! He's always chasing hermit-crabs it's a great sport of his. And I suppose it just happened that one dug itself down in the sand right here, and he dug after it and then came across this."
Then there were polypes; hermit-crabs with their tails in cast-off shells; tiny shell-fish tightly clinging to the stones; boring shells, weeds, and tangles, swarming with innumerable tiny living forms; and so at last bottles and jars were as well filled as was possible with treasures enough to afford them amusement for the next month.
Faces, emotionally divided between fear and strong interest, peered at us as we ran by, disappearing at the first whistle of a bomb, for all the world like hermit-crabs into their shells. A whistle sent us both scurrying into a passageway; the shell fell with a wicked hiss, and, scattering the paving-stones to the four winds, blew a shallow crater in the roadway.
On flat tables were starfish lazying at full width, strewn shells, and hermit-crabs entering and leaving their captured homes. Mauve and primrose, pink and blue, green and brown, the coral plants nodded in the glittering light that filtered through the translucent brine.
The more I feel myself weak, the more I am meant not to fold my hands and say, 'I never can do that thing; it is of no use my trying to attempt it, I may as well give it up'; but to say, 'Lord I there is none beside Thee that can set the balance right between the mighty and him that hath no strength. 'Help me, O Lord my God! Just as those little hermit-crabs that you see upon the seashore, with soft bodies unprotected, make for the first empty shell they can find, and house in that and make it their fortress, our exposed natures, our unarmoured characters, our sense of weakness, ought to drive us to Him.
A black-and-white English sheep-dog, his name corresponding closely to his appearance, came racing up the beach at her call. "Did you find it hard to tear yourself away from the hermit-crabs, Ragsie?" she laughed. "You must have gobbled down more than a hundred. It's high time you left off!" She started to race along the deserted beach, the dog leaping ahead of her and yapping ecstatically.
"I hardly think we ought to take him in. Can't you chain him up?" "Oh, I wouldn't dare! He'd howl himself sick and wake Aunt Marcia. You see, he's never chained. But I can turn him loose on the beach and let him chase hermit-crabs, and when he's well occupied, we can slip away."
"If you'd like me to," said Eve, "I'll show you how the turquoise-colored waves sound when they strike the hermit-crabs." "Do!" urged Barton. Listlessly the girl pushed back into her pillows, slid down a little farther into her blankets, and closed her eyes. "Mmmmmmmmm," she began, "Mmm-mmmmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmmm, W-h-i-s-h-h-h! Mmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmm W-h-i-s-h-h-h! Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmm "
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