Show S c c r Sy 5 TIP c sj til L JJ JL Lil C U r J C am JR ANI Mci Ins ains OYSTER CRAB CRAD D 1 By ThORNTON W V Oh who would be bo nn an Oy Oyster Oyier ler Crab Iter life lite secure but 01 oh how JIOW drab Reddy lox Vox- It If 11 that Is Sirs Mrs Irs Crab where Is Mr Ir Oyster Oster Crab Inquired Fox as he looked down at nt the tIny s little Crab C which Gray Gray- wing Gray i wing the Gull had bad said lived with an oyster inside the tho latter's shell Goodness knows replied Gray Gray- wine Gray wins wing lie He H may be bo almost anywhere n the water Oh exclaimed noddy Reddy Red d ho he live Uve with wah an Oyster too No Xo replied He Ste Is small small-he ho Is even smaller than lit little tie tle Mrs Sirs Oyster Oster Crab but ho Is 18 a shell ahard-shell I Itie shell bard Yes Yea sir ho may be Ill Ill- lit little tie tle but ho lIe Is a II hard hard- hard shelled per per- person person person son just lust the tho same lie Ito belle believes In having a II good time and seeing the world Am I to understand d that little Mrs Oyster Crab doesn't have a ahard hard shell 7 Inquired Heddy It It that is your understanding unde it itIs Is 13 correct replied She has only a sort of ot tiki akin In place of ot a 0 shell and that Is IG what makes her such good eating I Good Gooel exclaimed Reddy X Now ow that you OU mention it Im I'm hun bun hungry gry I should like liko to know what II a little Crab like that tast tastes a like Before Reddy could move Gray Gray- wine Gray ving had swooped sv down and little Mrs Irs Oyster Crab had ad disappeared at one gulp I hope sometime you may find out said and chuckled You Yoi know we dont don't often have a D taste of Oyster Crabs because It Isn't often otton that one Is found They never leave the tho Oysters Oysters Oysters with which they arc are living and aAd it is only when an nn Oyster Is 19 opened by some Borne one that there thero is b a chance f 3 lL S Cool Cooil eating Reddy p Now that thet you mention It Im I'm to get these little lo Crabs Look at that baby Crab down there cried Reddy the Crab I ever Ibid dill see looked Just under und r some seaweed in the water was a II mite of ot a Crab but he be was a II sure-enough sure regular Crab Little as he lie was Reddy could see seo that he lie had two pinching claws just like any regular Crab and there was nothing weak about those tiny legs lega of ot his bbs aa as had been boon the case Ith Mrs Sirs Oyster Crab Jie He was traveling sidewise just as any Clab would Well VII Vell you ou are arc lucky exclaimed It isn't ever ono who has a 1 chance to see little Mr Oyster Oyster ter tar Crab That la Is i who you were looking at lie He Isn't seen very ort oft often oft often en ln He knows enough to 10 keep out ot of sI right eight ht He lie has a shell and alt that like a regular ular Crab CIal but he Is such a ft tiny fellow that his shell Isn't very hard and arul there are al- al waya nl-waya waya waa hungry fish Ish looking for hidi That Is why he scuttled out of or sight so quickly But Dut little as he Is he heis heis heis is a regular fellow for he would rather take his lila chanco chance and see something o of the great world than live as ns little Mrs Mra Oyster Oler Crab lIve lives secure and sate safe but with with noth nothing tug ing more exciting happening than the Ihl opening and closing of ot an oyster shell Tho The most Important thin In life litE Is said salol to I be e safety Mrs ire Oyster Oysten Oyster ter ten Crab has haa It sh certainly has hasIt hasIt hasIt- hasIt It But Dut as for tor me I prefer a little less s safety fety and a 0 lot more excite excite- The Tho same here replied Reddy I that a 0 hunter with a 0 terrible gun heading this way along the 1 7 I I l believe It Is I just lust remember that I have havo a fishing date dale replied and spreading his wings flew away awny As Aa for tor Reddy eddy he lIe disappeared swiftly over the sand dunEs sand CopyrIght 1926 T W Burgess The next story A Queer Part Part- Partnership |