sea-aprons

Updated: May 12, 2025

And the curious sea-urchin, that looked as if he was made only for ornament, when he had once got rid of his spines, and the transparent jelly-fish, that seemed to have no more right to be alive than a ladleful of mucilage, and the razor-shells, and the barnacles, and the knotted kelp, and the flabby green sea-aprons, there was no end to the interesting things I found when I was trusted to go down to the edge of the tide alone.

Lucy Larcom - A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)