. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. CRAB LORE. 153 body, which rambling jack-tars sometimes gather for their friends at home, under the idea that their shells, when cut and polished, will make handsome brooches and shirt-pins. Major Lord tells a good story of a dry old salt of a quartermaster, on the Indian station, who " chanced one day, when on shore for a cruise, to become i^ssessed of a goodly number of these lucky, stones, as he called them, and b
. The sea [microform] : its stirring story of adventure, peril & heroism. Adventure and adventurers; Voyages and travels; Ocean; Aventures et aventuriers; Voyages; Océan. CRAB LORE. 153 body, which rambling jack-tars sometimes gather for their friends at home, under the idea that their shells, when cut and polished, will make handsome brooches and shirt-pins. Major Lord tells a good story of a dry old salt of a quartermaster, on the Indian station, who " chanced one day, when on shore for a cruise, to become i^ssessed of a goodly number of these lucky, stones, as he called them, and by way of securing his trensures, placed them in an old silk handkerchief, and stowed them away, with a few dollars and sundry cakes of THE WEST INDIAN LAM) cRAii {Gecarclnus ruficolu), in the corner of his chest. It so happened that some jiiratical shipmate, not proof against the allurements of honeydew and silver, but totally indifferent to natural history, seized his opportunity and spirited off the tobacco and money, but left the lucky-stones behind. The next day, when our old friend came for his accustomed supply of the weed, he, to his horror, astonishment, and indignation, found the supposed pebbles in active motion, performing foot-races over his best jacket, the handkerchief spread open, and, alas! empty. ' Well!' exclaimed he j ' blow me if this aint too much of tlio monkey! Why, look ye here, messmates! These here blessed stones have come to life, every man Jack of 'em. They've chawed up all my baeca, and spent every mag of my money! and now I'll 140 W. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Whymper, Frederick, b. 1838. London; New York : Cassel, Petter, Galpin
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