No proper aquarium is complete without them; and, when you once see them expand, showing their red and purple hues, and watch their wonderful way of moving about, you will soon be convinced that they are really animals and not vegetables, which, as I believe I told you before, many wise people for a long time supposed them to be! You just wait, missy, and you will find this out for yourself and learn more about them, too, than I can tell you." "Oh, yes," interposed Bob.

"I saw one this morning when I was swimming, and it looked just like a big dahlia." "Lucky for you it wasn't a jelly-fish, or you'd have felt it as well as seen it!" rejoined the Captain grimly--"Avast there, though, we were talking about sea-anemones and other similar fry; and I was thinking that the best place for us to go to get them would be--why, by Jove, it's the very thing!" "What's the matter now ?" said Mrs Gilmour, who had been reading a letter she had just received by the post, looking up at his sudden exclamation.

"Dear me, Captain, is anything wrong ?" "Nothing, ma'am, nothing," he replied, turning round to her--"only I've this moment thought of a way of `killing two birds with one stone.' I promised these youngsters, you know, if they were good--" "I know, I know what's coming now," cried Miss Nell, again interrupting him.

Really she was a very rude little lady sometimes.

"You're going to tell us at last!" "What, missy ?" said the Captain chuckling, as she and Bob executed a triumphal dance round him, while Dick stood grinning in the background, his face, which had filled out considerably in the last week or two, making him look very different to the lantern-jawed lad they had encountered in the train, all one smile.