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Updated: May 7, 2025
He's just been a week at the job. He rins about in a wee motor-cawr, and wad speir the inside oot o' a whelk. 'Where's your house? I asked, and was directed by a wavering finger to the cottage by the stream. 'Well, back to your bed, I said, 'and sleep in peace. I'll take on your job for a bit and see the Surveyor.
As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell. If he meets with another Hermit there is a battle, one trying to steal the other's shell. Our coloured picture, page 35, shows some Hermits at war. Fighting, house-hunting, and moving house seem to be the Hermit's favourite pursuits.
"Well, he is a rum one," said Bob, growing bolder. "Why, he's just like a counterfeit is when you pull his tail out of a whelk shell." "Not quite so soft," I said, gaining confidence and handling the crab in turn, for it was not so fleshy feeling as the back part of hermit crabs, which we called counterfeits in our part of the world. "What shall we do with if?" said Big.
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