. St. Nicholas [serial]. s along and seizes its food. Instead of blunt, irregular make-believe feet, some have straight,slender rays two or three times as Many of these These rays are extended nearly all long as the body. One of theseothers live in the ocean, while ! is the sun-animalcule, common still others live in fresh water, or even in damp among floating plants in standing water. Itplaces on land. In fact, they occur almost any- is so namedwhere that is not too dry andthe water is clean. We canfind them on the bark oftrees, on the drippingrocks near waterfalls,in the ooze at the bot-tom
. St. Nicholas [serial]. s along and seizes its food. Instead of blunt, irregular make-believe feet, some have straight,slender rays two or three times as Many of these These rays are extended nearly all long as the body. One of theseothers live in the ocean, while ! is the sun-animalcule, common still others live in fresh water, or even in damp among floating plants in standing water. Itplaces on land. In fact, they occur almost any- is so namedwhere that is not too dry andthe water is clean. We canfind them on the bark oftrees, on the drippingrocks near waterfalls,in the ooze at the bot-tom of ponds andditches, in the slimeon submerged objects,on the under side offloating leaves, and inthe water which wesqueeze out of bog-moss. And many livein shells which, likethe shell of clams andsnails, are formed fromthe creatures ownbody, or are built upof sand grains and thehard parts of otherminute animals andplants. Some of theselittle fellows are green,some are red or brown,some are nearly black,and some almost as. ROOT-FOOTED A drop of water is taken from that in the pail by theaid of a slender glass tube. This drop is placed on aglass slip and then examined under the microscope. 554 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [April, because, with the round body and pro-jecting rays, it looks for all the world likethe picture of the sun in old some smaller creature touches oneof these rays it seems to become para-lyzed, and is drawn down the surface ofthe body to where a sort of lump risesup and swallows it. If the prey is toobig for one ray to manage, half a dozenwill surround it, becoming more or lessfused together, while the lump which rises upto engulf the morsel is half as large as the ani-malcule itself. The sun-animalcule floats, and moves onwardin a mysterious and unknown way, while someothers, not very different in appearance, do notmove about except when they are very young,but stand on long stalks and have a sort of lat-ticework shell, the rays streaming
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