. St. Nicholas [serial]. mall,like a snail, it is taken into the stomach. If itis large, like an oyster, the stomach is pushedout and around it. Digestive fluids are pouredover it, and the portions digested are taken intothe starfish. how the starfish travels. New York St. Nicholas : I was down on the rocks, oneday, where there was a little pool left by the tide. Inthis pool were a number of starfish. I thought I wouldlike to see how a starfish turns over; so I picked oneup and put it on its back. Pretty soon it began to drawtwo of its legs up. Then it turned over the ends of theothe
. St. Nicholas [serial]. mall,like a snail, it is taken into the stomach. If itis large, like an oyster, the stomach is pushedout and around it. Digestive fluids are pouredover it, and the portions digested are taken intothe starfish. how the starfish travels. New York St. Nicholas : I was down on the rocks, oneday, where there was a little pool left by the tide. Inthis pool were a number of starfish. I thought I wouldlike to see how a starfish turns over; so I picked oneup and put it on its back. Pretty soon it began to drawtwo of its legs up. Then it turned over the ends of theothers, and pushed or sucked, I could not tell which,with the feelers which are on the under side of all star-fish. Thus very slowly it turned over. One of your many readers, Dorothy Bull (age 12). Small water-reservoirs are connected with thetube-feet. Water is forced into these tubes andthus extended. The suckers at the end of thefeet attach themselves to an object. Then themuscles contract and the body is pulled -. ? ? ?-
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