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Title: On the Seashore

Author: R. Cadwallader Smith

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Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Seventh Book

ON THE SEASHORE

By R. CADWALLADER SMITH

With Eight Colour Plates And Many
Black-And-White Illustrations

CONTENTS

LESSON

I. FIVE-FINGERED JACK

II. A STROLL BY THE SEA

III. BIRDS OF THE SHORE

IV. CRABS

V. SHRIMPS, PRAWNS AND BARNACLES

VI. PLANTS OF THE SHORE

VII. FLOWER-LIKE ANIMALS

VIII. SEA-WEEDS AND SEA-GRASS

IX. THE JELLY-FISH

X. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (1)

XI. SHELLS AND THEIR BUILDERS (2)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

COLOUR PLATES

TREASURES OF THE SEASHORE [Missing]

GULLS

THE REDSHANK

HERMIT CRABS FIGHTING

THE COMMON LOBSTER AND HERMIT CRAB

CRUSTACEA

WEST PAN SAND BUOY

SHELLS

BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS

COMMON FIVE-FINGERED STARFISH

TEST OR SHELL OF A SEA-URCHIN

THE CRAB

PURSE CRAB

HERMIT CRAB IN WHELK'S SHELL

HERMIT CRAB WITH SEA FLOWERS

THE LOBSTER

THE SHRIMP

SEA LILY

SEA ANEMONE

SEA-WEED FROND

SEA MAT

MEDUSA

A MEDUSOID

PRECIOUS WENTLETRAP

COWRIES

LESSON I.

FIVE-FINGERED JACK.

What fun it is down by the sea at low tide! Scrambling among the
slippery rocks, we quickly fill a bucket with curious things. Some are
dead, others very much alive; but all have a story to tell us--the story
of the life they lead on the bed of the sea, or among the sands and
rocks of the shore.

Look, here is a St