. In brook and bayou; or, Life in the still waters . feathered as to resemble palm plants. The female carries one external ovary oregg sack. The diaptomus is one tenth of aninch in length, and, like the branchipus, is alover of cool water, being found only in fall orearly spring, and making its home in shallowpools. The one most common with us is red;but there are those that wear white, otherswith robes of purple, and others that wear blueand have antennae tipped with bright purple. It might be mistaken for a cyclops, fromwhich it may be distinguished by its unusuallylong, single pair of anten
. In brook and bayou; or, Life in the still waters . feathered as to resemble palm plants. The female carries one external ovary oregg sack. The diaptomus is one tenth of aninch in length, and, like the branchipus, is alover of cool water, being found only in fall orearly spring, and making its home in shallowpools. The one most common with us is red;but there are those that wear white, otherswith robes of purple, and others that wear blueand have antennae tipped with bright purple. It might be mistaken for a cyclops, fromwhich it may be distinguished by its unusuallylong, single pair of antennae, the cyclops hav-ing two pairs of shorter ones. It has a comelyfigure, but its chief beauty lies in the brilliantcolor which extends through antennae, legs, andbody, even to the tip of its tail. CRUSTACEANS. 133 ONE-EYED GIANT OF THE MILL POND. {Cydo2:)s.) There is an old poem that the Greeksused to love which tells of the trials and dan-gers that beset the hero Ulysses—or Odysseus,as they called him—as he journeyed homeward ^H^^^ Fig. 39.—Cyclops quadricornis: a, young. from the Trojan war. It took Ulysses twentyyears to reach his home, and he had so manynarrow escapes the wonder is that he everreached it at all. On one occasion in particular he came verynear to death. As the story goes, his shipswere swept by storms against a strange and his companions went ashore to ex- 134 IN BEOOK AND BAYOU. plore the land, discovered a cave, which theyentered, and, finding presses full of cheeses,vats full of milk, and casks of wine, theyfeasted and made merry, not knowing that thecave was the abode of a fierce and terribleCyclops, a huge giant who had one fiery eyeset in the middle of his forehead. At sun-down the giant came home, drove his flocksinto the cave and shut the door. The door ofthe cave was a rock, so immense that Ulyssesknew he and his men would be powerless toremove it. He saw that they were prisoners,and the giant looked so terrible and r
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