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Sometimes they raise the shell so as to allow a free circulation beneath; but if some predatory Prawn draw near, the tent is lowered in a twinkling, so as effectually to shut out the submarine Tartar. Tread warily, or you will trip upon the slimy Fucus that fringes the seaward side of every rock. This is one of the few Algae that grow here in luxuriance.
They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards. As the body becomes straight again, the fan closes, ready for another stroke. To move quickly, the Shrimp or Prawn merely bends his body, then straightens it. The tail thus becomes a strong oar, driving him backwards with rapid jerks. Look now at the Prawn's long, hair-like feelers. There are two pairs.
There was a paddle at one end, with enough of an edge to behead a prawn, and the other end had been worked to a point. He took it into the living hut and sat down at the desk to examine it with a magnifying glass. Bits of soil embedded in the sharp end that had been used as a pick. The paddle end had been used as a shovel, beheader and shell-cracker.
Serve by placing a leaf of lettuce on each small plate, and add two tablespoonfuls of the potato to the lettuce, for each person. Cold boiled potatoes do not make a good potato salad. PRAWN SALAD. These dainties can always be obtained in Fulton Market, cooked and shelled.
Then Bob and Bigley softly thrust in their nets, and it became my duty to poke about among the sea-weed and under the ledges where we had seen the prawns take shelter. At about the second stirring of the overhanging weed on one side, out darted a big prawn.
Those kinds which include no other subdivisions than the sexes, or various breeds, are called, in technical language, species. The English lobster is a species, our cray fish is another, our prawn is another. In other countries, however, there are lobsters, cray fish, and prawns, very like ours, and yet presenting sufficient differences to deserve distinction.
Travellers tell us how the natives of some far-off islands dive into the sea and do battle with sharks; but no boy ever lived who could dive into a pool and catch a prawn in his native element at least I never knew one who could, and we were going to give it up after a few frantic thrusts with our nets, when an idea occurred to me. "Here, I know!" I cried.
It is conscious and abhors the touch of man. Follow it up in the pellucid water, and make of your hand a scoop, and you will find that you have captured, not a phantom but a prawn, compact of one bewildering blotch and that is a word of doubtful propriety in connection with so elfin an organism a mere shadow tinted the palest violet, and transparencies, with legs and antennae frail as silken threads.
'I never heard them give any reason, said the boy, diplomatically. Mr. Shelford let the boy go with another chuckle, and Langton retired to his form again out of earshot. 'Yes, Ashburn, said old Jemmy, 'that's the name they have for me one of 'em. "Prawn" and "Shellfish" they yell it out after me as I'm going home, and then run away. And I've had to bear it thirty years.
In addition to these, her accumulation of pet specialities included a seven-fingered starfish, which is supposed by the ignorant to be peculiarly inimical to the adventurous cat that swalloweth it; and a ring-horned pandalus or `Aesop prawn, which queer creature Master Bob appropriately christened `The Prawnee Chief, much to the annoyance of Miss Nell, who had become quite grand now in her language, becoming `puffed up, as Bob said, with her newly-acquired `knowledge' a `little' of which, as the proverb tells us, is "a dangerous thing."
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