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The rest of the polyp's body is soft jelly, which many fish regard as good food. The Sea Anemone another jelly-animal is first cousin to the Coral Polyp. And we may call the Jellyfish second cousin to these two, for it is in the same big division of the animal kingdom. The pretty red Coral, then, is really the hard part of a little jelly-animal.
I can trace the growth of my little marine animals all the year round without interruption, by going occasionally over there during the winter. I have at this moment young medusae budding from their polyp nurses, which I expect to see freeing themselves in a few weeks."
"He never answered; just looked at me pityfyin', as much as to say, 'Well, you poor, drivelin, old polyp! "One day Denny, the squaw-man, drove up the creek: "'Windy Jim is back with the mail, says he, and we hit for camp on the run. Only fifteen mile, she is, but I was all in when we got there, keepin' up with Justus.
It exhibits, in a word, the property of irritability that is, simply the power of receiving and reacting to stimuli; and being only a single cell this property is held in common by all of its parts. We come next to a simple many-celled animal like the polyp Hydra, or a jellyfish.
Life is not very exhilarating at best, but for a man to set his heart on such a woman as this girl promises to be, and then be denied why, he had better remain a polyp. Come, come, Alford Graham, you have had your hour of sentiment out of deference to Mr. Emerson I won't call it weakness and it's time you remembered that you are a comparatively poor man, that Miss St.
For that matter we are each and all toiling as blindly as the coral insect, and yet our labor is as much a part of a symmetrical structure as is the life and perishing of that polyp. We are all pouring out our energies day by day without understanding what effect our spent lives will have in the general result of human effort.
In this sense the Millepores are in our epoch the representatives of those early Corals called by naturalists Tabulata and Rugosa, distinguished from the Polyp Corals by the horizontal floors, waving in some, straight in others, which divide the body transversely at successive heights through its whole length, and also by the absence of the vertical partitions, extending from top to bottom of each animal, so characteristic of the true Polyps.
"Nothing wrong, Maria, nothing wrong. We birds now sing differently. Whoever can saunter, with lukewarm blood and lukewarm pleasures, from one decade to another in peace and honor, is fortunate. My blood flows in a swifter course, and what my eager soul has once clasped with its polyp arms, it will never release until the death-hour comes.
Look out for your digestion, and only look," he added, with a mock-heroic gesture, "at the majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance of this amiable capitalist's dining-room. That man has in reality only made his money for our benefit. Isn't he a kind of sponge of the polyp order, overlooked by naturalists, which should be carefully squeezed before he is left for his heirs to feed upon?
The mode of development of these animals tells us something of the relative inferiority and superiority of the single ones and of those that grow in communities. When the little Polyp Coral, the Astraean or Madrepore, for instance, is born from the egg, it is as free as the Actinia, which remains free all its life.
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