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 Ry inyitatlon of C well known natS rail,t had not long seu 50 opportunity to wltr,s.~,a curious sight in sn aqua rim, in which about a hundned young lobssers had been placed
 Young loibsteu ara cssnnlbAis of the very wosst type. and can give points 70 the most terrible tnansater in al Africa.
 The aobstss had iust passed out o' ti,s swlnlning stage and were sessn crawiing aboutsin the tank The tank had gla~ sAdes giving an eaesi'sni chance for observation. and it had 2 capacity of about fifty gallons os water At one sade of. the interior of the Aq,ats rlum had been piled large stones. with flat .siieN resting on snnd. The sand was abont two inches deeps oosering the bottom
 Ny infxuans said that the hrst per fonnanoss of ihe young lohstsrs whsn puf Into the tank were very tntsrntr ing. They, gathered around the sides of the rscks. ani with their autenn;s almost against the stone. crossed theif claws in front of them and moving Lackwnnis draxsd pinchss of sand away from the stoue This was re peased again azsd again until q hole had been inndo hde enough to hold the little lobster with space 10 spare
 Then the erusfecean climbed over the heap of sand Into the exoarafions and. turning histAii to the stone. pro ceeded to push the particles froin the bottom of the hole to the top of the. heap by placingits two claws toeethes with the tips tapping 90 that the sand could not slids back In effect the eiaws served as . shovel
 After the iotsesEs had in thh mnn- ner built for themselves caves for de fenirs purposes they planted them seIvcs with their backs to the stone and kept their little black. bsadHks syss rowing outward in every dirsefaon-. ! When took my plaoe to watch nothing was stirring.
 Now and then lobster would climb out of his retreat and explose the i'm mediate neighborhood
 , Suddenly. finding an intrenched lob ster, the errnns a8venturer would as- sault Ik Then would ensue the biggest kind of a rough and tumble. catch-es- catch-ean contest It was fight to tho death
 When the struggle was between only two iobsten the result was usl.-.ily a drawn battle, each fetreating to his hole with the los ot claw or of one or two antenn@.
 But when two or three lobstan at tackled one In his shallow cave the fight was soon over. The miseeabls victim was dragged out on the arena by tho sharp pincen of the beaiegenS and In trice he vss killed. It p quired but . few minutes for the can nibals to dismember and eat up their victim, dragging the bits to different parts of the aquarium. a dop would bones.
 These attacks arc always made at night. l was so fortunate as to zee an other raid. but It was not like that de- scribcd above. One of the lobsters that had emerged from his lair in pur suit of food was himself pursued in turn. Caught mapping away from his castle by three or four enemies, 1t scnt- tied over the sand toward one corner of tho aquarium After him went the puEsuers helter skelter, and while the pursued resorted to dotiging tactics that would be admired bysa football rusher, the pursuers separated and clcssd h around the doomed creature 2 lis by'a curious instihe< that the pursuit Is made in the night. because it Is evidently to the advantage of the pursuer, on the principle in war that. night attacks are moro successful than thoss by daylight. q < Marks of these midnight forays were to be found in the morning m the frag- ments of shella The result of canni balism among the young iobsters is that out of . hundred about twenty fivo survive, a demonstration of the Darwinian law of the survival of the Attest
 In the cannibal stage of their ex- istence they are about three -quartess of an inch in length, and when the sur vfvors grow to be two and half Inches in length from the tall 10 the tip of the claws they have outgrown their blood thirsty instincts- New York Herald
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