... merits over the edge of the precipice. There is at present a revolt against strong plots, but a piece as invertebrate as a jelly-fish stands on too high a plane. We should have been gently led towards it with some such line on the programme as a play without ...

... was first seen as a blaze of light as large as a bucket, ten or more feet below the surface, and supposed to be a large jellyfish. The finder called it a 4 fire-barrel,' not an exaggeration, as when the strange object reached the surface it was seen to ...

... polishing man's understanding. P he question whether bathers are more likelv to be bitten in half by sharks or stung to death by jellyfish is still exer cising the minds of cheerful scientists, but the proprietors of bathing machines find no falling off in their ...

... in deep water awaiting the arrival of their principal food the curious little thimble fish, like ill-formed, dark green jelly-fish, the size and shape of a thimble. We saw an occasional hawksbill, from which tortoise-shell is procured, feeding upon the ...

... snaky tresses of Medusa and the tentacles of these soft-bodied animals. The family and its near relatives include hydroids, jelly-fishes proper coral polyps and sea anemones, and though they are of a higher form of life than the foraminifera, or the sponges ...

... keep it from fouling the bottom, where other wise it would have become entangled with weeds and slimy with the movements of jelly-fish. In spite of the helpful corks on the pot-strings, the hoisting of thirty heavy craes from a depth of six fathoms within ...

... have gladly accepted the principle of universal military training, would send their battalions and squad rons to help a jellyfish country that could not coax enough of its young men into its battalions to bring them to the strength which was the minimum ...

... armour. The catch is not limited to herrings; gurnets, whiting; weavers, and mullet, all are taken toll of. Slimy strings of jellyfish and crabs get caught in the meshes. Dogfish with a fiendish partiality for the best herrings, which they select with unerring ...

... Looke's Wil lows. Same fox, miss, shouted the old huntsman as he passed her. Old Bidabout had known her since she Was a jellyfish in a basket chair rocking about on the old bay pony. Erin opened the gate dex terously. In the lane the thundering field ...

... could realise that Lancelot, my beautiful and charming husband, was unstable as water, and had no more real character than a jellyfish. Oh, do not mistake me or look horrified at my wifely disloyalty I am very fond of him still, and he of me we rub on all ...

... in my desire to help, my repugnance of such a task, 1 next assist to scrape together armfuls of glowing sea-wrack and jelly-fish that have to be thrown overboard again. The shutts (bottom-boards) are slippery with slime and wet, and I slide and bump ...

... it be warm, or the Marylebone or a dozen other baths if the weather be incle ment. In the Serpentine there are no nasty jelly-fish and other things, and the water of Marylebone is crystal clear. After my bathe I walk through Hyde or Regent's Park, only ...