A Day with the Sea Urchins. 75

So one by one the Sea Urchins came out of their
hiding places, and floated down to where the body of
the boy lay.

How much they knew of the great mystery of life
and death I could not tell, but Jasper, who was very

 

wise, had evidently told them something, for they were
very grave, and looked so pitifully at what they called
the empty shell of the boy as they stood round it. He
was younger and smaller than the one they had see
carried off by the policeman—quite a little boy, in fact,
though so much bigger than the Sea Urchins.

Presently they agreed among themselves that they