| Show 1 QUEER R LITTLE SEA MOUSE Remarkable In the Lower Branches of Organic Life A few days ago ago Wilen when they they they brought me a fine specimen abo about t four fou Inches long of off that that strange creature the sea mouse dredged from the sandy bottom bottom bot bot- I Itom tom of Loch Ryan I began to speculate speculate i late darkly upon the significance of oft t g n d n name n bestowed Lam lowly Invertebrate by arack For it is no mouse but a worm belonging to the class Anne Anne- lida animals which being still in a primitive stage of development enjoy the enviable privilege of being able to replace any organ even a head of which the they may be bereft by accident or or assault or e a 9 t f t i f fe At first sight no living creature Is less suggestive of the goddess of love Its general outline being that of a gigantic gigantic gigantic gi gi- gantic wood louse and its structure but an oblong mass o of integument and Y Yet t on second second thought it appears not inappropriately termed born of the sea foam foam foam-am- am- am and and if beauty of form be denIed denied denied de de- nied to fo it compensation is made by byan byan byan an extraordinary loveliness of color The The The- breathing apparatus consisting of external like silky bristles bristles bristles bris bris- arranged all I along the sides sides' of the animal shine with a luster as delicate delicate deli dell cate cate as and more more brilliant than a pig pigeons pigeon's ons on's neck Pall p Pall ll Mall Gazette P. P |
