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Melbourne House, Volume 1

CHAPTER XV
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Then bread and butter and salad were found to be very refreshing.

But while Daisy eat, she looked at the trilobite.
"Please tell me what it is, Capt, Drummond." "It is a Crustacean." "But you know I don't know what a Crustacean is." "A Crustacean, is a fellow who wears his bones on the outside." "Capt.

Drummond! What do you mean ?" "Well I mean that, Daisy.

Did you never hear of the way soldiers used to arm themselves for the fight in old times?
in plates of jointed armour ?" "Yes, I know they did." "Well these fellows are armed just so--only they do not put on steel or brass, but hard plates of bone or horn that do exactly as well, and are jointed just as nicely." "And those are Crustaceans ?" "Those are Crustaceans." "And was this thing armed so ?" "Splendidly.

Don't you see those marks ?--those shew the rings of his armour.


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