. Shells and sea-life. Figure 26. 70 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. the finger-hole, for they have no more need tospin anchor-threads; but you can always see onthe shell the place that used to be open. You cantell their shells, even if they are old and broken,for they always color the part next to the hingewith a rich purple that never fades or washes , good by, now, for I must go, or the tidewill leave me high and. dry. When I am deadyou may find my shells washed up on the you do find them, please put them in your cab-inet with a proper label; and whenever jou lookat them, think o
. Shells and sea-life. Figure 26. 70 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. the finger-hole, for they have no more need tospin anchor-threads; but you can always see onthe shell the place that used to be open. You cantell their shells, even if they are old and broken,for they always color the part next to the hingewith a rich purple that never fades or washes , good by, now, for I must go, or the tidewill leave me high and. dry. When I am deadyou may find my shells washed up on the you do find them, please put them in your cab-inet with a proper label; and whenever jou lookat them, think of me, and of my little story aboutthe pectens. BLACKBOARD WORDS. vigorously (vigor-us-ly), commotion (k6m-moshiin),escalloped (es-kolupt), ancestors (anses-terz), colonies(koro-niz), bivalves (bivalvz), delicacy (deli-ka-sy). NE of the most devoted rock-lovers tobe found in the whole ocean is themussel. It seems to know thatit must make itself fast to arock, and it is due to this in-stinct that the mussel is ableto live in very rough water,and to safely keep house where many other moUusks would shortly lose their lives. The common mussel of the Pacific coast has been known for a long time. As early as 1789, Captain George Dixon wrote home to England that he had found on our northern coast a kind of mussel very much larger than those of Europe. He wrote that he had seen one shell that was nine and one half inches in length; and he added that the natives sharpened these shells to a fine point and REFERENCE TOPICS. Tools made from voyages to this Structure of creatures bore holes. 72 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. used them for the heads of their harpoons andfish-spears. The shells are wrinkled, wrote Captain Dixon,and if you will notice Figure 27, you will see someof the
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