A DAY WITH |
Tin Seek URemINS

Once upon a time there was a family of Sea Urchins,
whose home was a cave in the Bay of Delight. It is
not likely that any of you have ever seen a real live
Sea Urchin, though no doubt you have picked up
strange-looking spiny or spiky objects on the sea-
shore, which you have been told are the skins or
shells of Sea Urchins. But the kind I mean is not
a bit like that; they are like Land Urchins, only far
smaller and prettier. If you can get up very early on
the morning of the longest day in the year, and be
down on the beach just as the sun shows the very tip
vf his red forehead above the sea, and lights up one
little ripple after another with ruby sparks till a many
twinkling, rosy track creeps across the sea to your feet,
and if it should happen to be high tide at that very
moment, then if you could peep into the cave, unseen
and unheard, you might have a chance of seeing the

Sea Urchins, and hearing them also, as I saw and
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