. Shells and sea-life. oyster-men are able to go to their as-sistance. So you see that the raising of oysters, like theraising of cattle, is attended with much expenseand many difficulties; and though their food costsnothing, — for they eat the little living particlesthat exist in sea-water, — still it is not probablethat they will ever be very cheap on this coast. This seems all the more true, since youngoysters are continually being brought from theEast, instead of being raised here at home. It isthought that the very young oysters, which comefrom the tiny eggs of the old ones, mostly perish
. Shells and sea-life. oyster-men are able to go to their as-sistance. So you see that the raising of oysters, like theraising of cattle, is attended with much expenseand many difficulties; and though their food costsnothing, — for they eat the little living particlesthat exist in sea-water, — still it is not probablethat they will ever be very cheap on this coast. This seems all the more true, since youngoysters are continually being brought from theEast, instead of being raised here at home. It isthought that the very young oysters, which comefrom the tiny eggs of the old ones, mostly perishin the cold waters of the bay before they get agood start in life, and so the traffic in Easternoysters is likely to go on for many years. BliACKBOARD WORDS. extensive (ex-tensiv), material (ma-teri-ril), contri-vances (kon-trivan-sez), acquaintance (ak-quantans),conveniently (kon-venyent-ly), triangular (tri-angu-lar), particles (piirti-klz), continually (kon-thiu-al-ly),slaughter (slater). THE SOFT-SHELLED FEW years after the first Easternoysters had been planted in SanFrancisco Bay, a man who studiesshells was much sur-prised to find a newclam living near them.^ . There were only a few specimens of the strange clam, and these were notvery large, but they were examined with muchcare. They greatly resembled the clams of RhodeIsland, which are so much prized in that state,but as they were supposed to be somewhat differ-ent, they were given a new name. This name wasselected in honor of Mr. Henry Hemphill, a gen-tleman who has collectedand studied our Westernshells very extensively. The first shells werefound in November, 1874,but in a few years theybegan to be very common,and then it was found that 37 REFERENCE TOPICS. Rliode Island elams. Latin names. Tlie microscope. Oxygen. Cost of oysters. *Happy as a clam. Importations by rail. 38 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. a mistake had been made, and that the clam wasnot new at all. It was onl}^ the soft-shelled clamof the Atla
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