Millard County Chronicle | 1913-02-27 | Page 8 | Living Mud.

Living Mud. In China during the rainy aeaaon the amount of mud In certain maritime mari-time itrovlncea Is Incredible and appal ling. It la, In fact, as much aa two. three and even four feet deep Tourists Tour-ists aay that to see wagona and men and animals pushing through this , brown and viscous mud la aa ugly a sight aa can well be Imagined. Hut there's a alght more horrible still the sight of the living mud. Sometimes, as you stand on the edge of one of these awful expanses, the mud begins to move. It rlseB up and down. It forma Itself Into strange mounds. It Is like a great cauldron of wltchee' Btew. As ycni putzle over the ugly apnctarle the hideous forms of a dozen land crabs, coated thick with mud, emerge near you., A doien more toll painfully forth on your right, another doxen on your left. And then you understand. Thla cauldron of moving, living mud la due to thou-sands thou-sands of great land crabs wallowing In Ita depthB.