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"
Not
at
all
,
"
cried
Jack
,
rolling
his
towel
up
into
a
ball
and
throwing
it
into
the
face
of
Peterkin
,
who
had
been
grinning
and
winking
at
him
during
the
last
five
minutes
--
"
not
at
all
.
Look
here
.
There
is
water
of
a
certain
saltness
in
the
sea
;
well
,
fill
your
tank
with
sea-water
,
and
keep
it
at
that
saltness
by
marking
the
height
at
which
the
water
stands
on
the
sides
.
When
it
evaporates
a
little
,
pour
in
fresh
water
from
the
brook
till
it
comes
up
to
the
mark
,
and
then
it
will
be
right
,
for
the
salt
does
not
evaporate
with
the
water
.
Then
there
's
lots
of
seaweed
in
the
sea
;
well
,
go
and
get
one
or
two
bits
of
seaweed
and
put
them
into
your
tank
.
Of
course
the
weed
must
be
alive
,
and
growing
to
little
stones
;
or
you
can
chip
a
bit
off
the
rocks
with
the
weed
sticking
to
it
.
Then
,
if
you
like
,
you
can
throw
a
little
sand
and
gravel
into
your
tank
,
and
the
thing
's
complete
.
"
"
Nay
,
not
quite
,
"
said
Peterkin
,
who
had
been
gravely
attentive
to
this
off-hand
advice
--
"
not
quite
.
You
must
first
make
three
little
men
to
dive
in
it
before
it
can
be
said
to
be
perfect
;
and
that
would
be
rather
difficult
,
I
fear
,
for
two
of
them
would
require
to
be
philosophers
.
But
hallo
!
what
's
this
?
--
I
say
,
Ralph
,
look
here
!
There
's
one
o
'
your
crabs
up
to
something
uncommon
.
It
's
performing
the
most
remarkable
operation
for
a
crab
I
ever
saw
--
taking
off
its
coat
,
I
do
believe
,
before
going
to
bed
!
"
We
hastily
stooped
over
the
tank
,
and
certainly
were
not
a
little
amused
at
the
conduct
of
one
of
the
crabs
which
still
survived
its
companions
.
It
was
one
of
the
common
small
crabs
,
like
to
those
that
are
found
running
about
everywhere
on
the
coast
of
England
.
While
we
gazed
at
it
we
observed
its
back
to
split
away
from
the
lower
part
of
its
body
,
and
out
of
the
gap
thus
formed
came
a
soft
lump
which
moved
and
writhed
unceasingly
.
This
lump
continued
to
increase
in
size
until
it
appeared
like
a
bunch
of
crab
's
legs
;
and
,
indeed
,
such
it
proved
in
a
very
few
minutes
to
be
,
for
the
points
of
the
toes
were
at
length
extricated
from
the
hole
in
its
back
,
the
legs
spread
out
,
the
body
followed
,
and
the
crab
walked
away
quite
entire
,
even
to
the
points
of
its
nipper-claws
,
leaving
a
perfectly
entire
shell
behind
it
,
so
that
,
when
we
looked
,
it
seemed
as
though
there
were
two
complete
crabs
instead
of
one
.
"
Well
,
"
exclaimed
Peterkin
,
drawing
a
long
breath
,
"
I
've
heard
of
a
man
jumping
out
of
his
skin
and
sitting
down
in
his
skeleton
in
order
to
cool
himself
,
but
I
never
expected
to
see
a
crab
do
it
!
"
We
were
,
in
truth
,
much
amazed
at
this
spectacle
,
and
the
more
so
when
we
observed
that
the
new
crab
was
larger
than
the
crab
that
it
came
out
of
.
It
was
also
quite
soft
,
but
by
next
morning
its
skin
had
hardened
into
a
good
shell
.
We
came
thus
to
know
that
crabs
grow
in
this
way
,
and
not
by
the
growing
of
their
shells
,
as
we
had
always
thought
before
we
saw
this
wonderful
operation
.
Now
I
considered
well
the
advice
which
Jack
had
given
me
about
preparing
my
tank
,
and
the
more
I
thought
of
it
the
more
I
came
to
regard
it
as
very
sound
and
worthy
of
being
acted
on
.
So
I
forthwith
put
his
plan
in
execution
,
and
found
it
to
answer
excellently
well
--
indeed
,
much
beyond
my
expectation
;
for
I
found
that
after
a
little
experience
had
taught
me
the
proper
proportion
of
seaweed
and
animals
to
put
into
a
certain
amount
of
water
,
the
tank
needed
no
further
attendance
.
And
,
moreover
,
I
did
not
require
ever
afterwards
to
renew
or
change
the
sea-water
,
but
only
to
add
a
very
little
fresh
water
from
the
brook
,
now
and
then
,
as
the
other
evaporated
.
I
therefore
concluded
that
if
I
had
been
suddenly
conveyed
,
along
with
my
tank
,
into
some
region
where
there
was
no
salt
sea
at
all
,
my
little
sea
and
my
sea-fish
would
have
continued
to
thrive
and
to
prosper
notwithstanding
.
This
made
me
greatly
to
desire
that
those
people
in
the
world
who
live
far
inland
might
know
of
my
wonderful
tank
,
and
by
having
materials
like
to
those
of
which
it
was
made
conveyed
to
them
,
thus
be
enabled
to
watch
the
habits
of
those
most
mysterious
animals
that
reside
in
the
sea
,
and
examine
with
their
own
eyes
the
wonders
of
the
great
deep
.
For
many
days
after
this
,
while
Peterkin
and
Jack
were
busily
employed
in
building
a
little
boat
out
of
the
curious
natural
planks
of
the
chestnut-tree
,
I
spent
much
of
my
time
in
examining
with
the
burning-glass
the
marvellous
operations
that
were
constantly
going
on
in
my
tank
.
Here
I
saw
those
anemones
which
cling
,
like
little
red
,
yellow
,
and
green
blobs
of
jelly
,
to
the
rocks
,
put
forth
,
as
it
were
,
a
multitude
of
arms
and
wait
till
little
fish
or
other
small
animalcules
unwarily
touched
them
,
when
they
would
instantly
seize
them
,
fold
arm
after
arm
round
their
victims
,
and
so
engulf
them
in
their
stomachs
