Show r i ale aler r MAnY R DIFFERENT CRABS What do you think of us asked asket the racer We are often called the horsemen because we rush along just the way horse racers do Dear me mc dear me said one of thela the la lady crabs whose family had been given en cu that name because of ot their great beauty youre not as fine as we ve are arc We IVe are beautiful Beauty is not everything said the spider-crab spider who had good sense even If It his thought was not n a new one Just look at our stretched out-stretched legs We are arc Interesting That Is far finer than beauty I am the red crab said another Well iVell we are called the tile porcelain crabs because we are so bright an and J have such lovely colors colors' said some littie little lit lit- tie tle crabs all very well but there Is nothing so fine as swimming said the swimming crabs and the paddle crabs and the shuttle crabs agreed No come come said Mr Blue Crab Crabe we e can all aU have various points that are arc fine about us but in n the long longrun longrun longrun run I am nm the best of all because I can be eaten Were glad you like like to be eaten said the others I 1 dont don't said the blue crab but Its It's a great honor Im I'm proud of it L Just then a little old crab came along who was always known as the telling story-telling crab because he always told the others fine stories of the life under the sea and of the many wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- adventures the crabs before them hud had lie He was very very very old ld and very very very wise and all the crabs liked to hear him bIm tell his wonderful stories Ive Ie heard you talking he said as ho came crawling along from side to side You were all aU bragging and boasting of what you could do It was very silly for boasting Is apt to make other Nc e et J Ja t liT 9 a I. I He Was Very Very Very Old r people less happy because they d do not feel so fortunate Besides It h Is very conceited But I want to tell you something now that will make every single one of you happy happ All the crabs listened attentively and they had quite stopped talking among themselves Hear clear I 1 And nil all the crabs heard beard the sea sen shells singing We are going to their chorus In is n very little while for they are singing all the afternoon But first of all I roust tell you something we all can doWe doWe doWe do We can crawl In any direction without without with with- out turning around Usually we crawl sideways v can crawl any way Just suppose we had to turn around every time we w WI wanted to go backwards We dont don't have to do that I We can crawl any way at alL alJ So the crabs proved d It by crawling In all nil sorts of ways as they went to thi the sea shell concert and aud what a gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous gor gor- concert It t was wac There were so many fine singers among the sea shells with such beautiful beautiful beau beau- deep lovely voices vo |