"But one day they climbed out and escaped, finally making their way back to the sea and home again.

So they are quite traveled, you see, and great favorites among the crabs.

While they were on land they saw a great many curious things, and so I suppose they saw automobiles." "We did, we did!" cried Harry Hustle, an awkward crab with one big claw and one little one.

"And we saw earth people with legs, awfully funny they were; and animals called horses, with legs; and other creatures with legs; and the people cover themselves with the queerest things--they even wear feathers and flowers on their heads, and--" "Oh, we know all about that," said Trot.

"We live on the earth ourselves." "Well, you're lucky to get off from it and into the good water," said the Crab.