Show CRAB LIVES ON COCOANUTS ab a e with his P to remove husks and break into shell there Is a crab which live lives on the cocoanut what a curious thing for a ceab to eat people used to say that the crab climbed the tree to get the nuts but this Is not believed to be true the crab eats the nuts that have fallen to the ground he lie has a pair of strong pincers at the end ot of his front claws when he has found a nut out to bis his mind he begins to tear away the hush husk fiber by fiber and he hammers on the three weak places in the shell which are called the eyes ot of the nut he lie soon hammers a hole right through them he ile has another pair of pincers in his hinder binder claws these are not so strong as the others but the crab be gins to scoop out the kernel with them out enough tor for his big he lie soon scoops dinner he ile lives in a deep hole bole and full of fibers of the the hole gets quite cocoanut which have been torn off he rests on oil these as on a bed this cocoanut eating crab Is quite a delicacy delica delicacy cF he lie gets so tat fat that some oil Is yielded from times a quart ot of h bis is body you may think how strong the pincers ot of tife crab must be to creak the hard shell ot of the cocoanut A captain of 0 a it ship wanted to bring crabs home he lie shut one ot of these the creature up in a tin box be and tied the lid down with wire he thought the crab could not possibly get out the crab used but he be was mistaken mistake his vils strong pincers to turn down the edges ot of the box and thus got away boles holes in doing so he had even punched through the tin |