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. Shells and sea-life. Figure 39. the mountain or the river or the sea, you mayexpect to find some of these forms of life. Asyou study their habits and examine their shells,you will better understand what a wonderful placeis this old world in which we live. BLACKBOARD WORDS. hastily (hasti-ly), azalla (a-zarya), syrlnga (sir-iiiga),magnificent (mag-nifi-sent), delicious (de-lishQs), ac-quainted ak-quanted), perpetual (per-petQal), monks-hood (mtinkshood), Planorbis (plan-orbis), Llmnsea (lim-nea), saxifrage (saxi-fraj), Unio (uni-o). A GROUP OF VERYBODY knows that olives grow o
. Shells and sea-life. Figure 39. the mountain or the river or the sea, you mayexpect to find some of these forms of life. Asyou study their habits and examine their shells,you will better understand what a wonderful placeis this old world in which we live. BLACKBOARD WORDS. hastily (hasti-ly), azalla (a-zarya), syrlnga (sir-iiiga),magnificent (mag-nifi-sent), delicious (de-lishQs), ac-quainted ak-quanted), perpetual (per-petQal), monks-hood (mtinkshood), Planorbis (plan-orbis), Llmnsea (lim-nea), saxifrage (saxi-fraj), Unio (uni-o). A GROUP OF VERYBODY knows that olives grow ontrees, and that they are used for makingoil and also for pickling. Theyare small, smooth, oval fruits,and are green at first, but be-come purple when they perhaps there are manypeople who do not know that there are many oceanshells that are also called Olives. And they arecalled so because they, too, are small and smoothand of an olive shape. As to their color, they arenever green, but some of them are purple, andahnost all of them are very pretty. The little animal thatlives in these shells lovesto burrow in the sand,—not very far down, but justdeep enough to cover theshell, while a pipe thrustup through the sand sup-plies the creature with wa-ter for its gills. REFERENCE TOPICS. dead Olive-ciilttire. Live shells andsliells. Pictures on shells. Price of clams in mar-kets. Long Beach. Nature of drills. Vegetarians. A GROUP OF SAND-DWELLERS. 87 Sometimes a great number of these olives livetogether, and the bed of sand will be quite alivewit
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