Show THE WARRIOR CRAB The most savago specimen of the crab species is found in Japan seeming to dream of nothing but fighting to delight in nothing else half so much The minute he spies another of hIs kind he crapes his claws together ill rage challenging him to the combat Not a moment is wasted In preliminaries but at it they go hammer and tongs It sounds like two rocks grinding against one another as their claws rattle against the hard I shells The sand flies as the warriors ilo nSthW push each other hither and thither until at last one of them stretches himself out in I tint sun tired to death But he does not beg for mercy or attempt to run away only feebly rubbing his claws together in detiance of the foe That foe comes closer and with his claws trembling with I coser joy it his victory the conqueror catches hold of one claw of the vanquished crab twists It until It comes oft and bears away the palpitating limb as a trophy of I warrior his prowess crabs Such is a battle between |