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Updated: May 13, 2025
Anyhow, whether they hide from custom or caprice, they are quite safe from interference. Much happier, in this respect, than the beasts in the Zoological Gardens. One may disturb the big elephant's repose with umbrella-points, or throw buns at the brown bear, but the "sea-gentlemen" are safe in their caves, and humanity flattens its nose against the glass wall of separation in vain.
By marvellously agile doubles of his flat little body, he scrambled a good way up. Then he fell, and two or three valiant efforts still proving vain, he gave it up. "He's turned giddy!" shouted a man beside us, who, like every one else, was watching the sea-gentlemen with rapt interest. Why the little sole tried rock climbing I don't know, and I doubt if he knew himself.
It is a disappointing feature of this water wonderland that some of the "sea-gentlemen" are apt to hide, like hobbledehoy children, when visitors call. Indeed, a good many of them such as the swimming-crabs, the burrowing-crabs, the sea-scorpions, and the eels are night-feeders, and one cannot expect them to change their whole habits and customs to be seen of the British public.
Sea-anemones are well-known to most people, but tube-worms are not such familiar friends; so I will try to describe this particular kind of "sea-gentlemen."
As some sea-gentlemen are much more rapacious than others, and as some prey upon others, the arranging of them must have been very like the old puzzle of the fox, the goose, and the bag of seed. Then when new creatures arrive it necessitates fresh arrangements.
Two very different things for our friends the "sea-gentlemen," as to colour as well as in other ways. In his own home, for instance, a lobster is of various beautiful shades of blue and purple. In Mr. Croker's home he would be bright scarlet from boiling! So would the prawn, and as solid as you please; who in his own home is colourless and transparent as any ghost.
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