those craba have a soft covering
i Which later becomes bard., It le more
’like a. skin first-and later It becomes
a : shell. r I'll show you ls-we have any
kind of T lurk.”
It was some"time later and after
Danny had forgotten, all about the
subject in his fhter+est in other
things that Jlmtfiy Skunk wt'mr to a
little tide pool from which- .the water
hod not run out when the tide Went
put. There was a rorkf on the edge
of It and seaweek attached tn the
rock and lying In a mass far thfewater.,
Jimmy pulled away this seaweetr awd
suddenly scooped something but onto,
the sand. "Here's one!” he,’cried., -,
"Here's whOt?” asked Danny, Kur*
-f rylng up to see what It,' wgs that
Jimmy had. „ , ~,
soft-shelled crab,” replied Jlnrh
'my- "Just touch him and yhu’tt see
that he,hasn’t any'hard shell.”
f Its was a small crab, and Danny at
last ventured to touch it. Sure enough
it was soft. There was no hard shell
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sprays are small and are few and
far between, but are In the same style
as the larger motifs, as if bits had
fallen from them and were caught
here and there and held, like falling
loose petals, only In this instance the
- scattered motifs are sprays, not petals
merely.
Materials. • <
To reduce the cost of such hand
some work, mercerised crochet cotton
mSy be employed for the entire scajf
and for the cross-stitch embroidery.
