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shoot its beams straight down through the transparent sea, and they seemed to
penetrate to every nook and crevice of the rocky bottom.
In this deeper part of the ocean some of the fishes had a phosphorescent light of
their own, and these could be seen far ahead as if they were lanterns. The
explorers met a school of argonauts going up to the surface for a sail, and the
child watched these strange creatures with much curiosity. The argonauts live in
shells in which they are able to hide in case of danger from prowling wolf fishes,
but otherwise they crawl out and carry their shells like humps upon their backs.
Then they spread their skinny sails above them and sail away under water till
they come to the surface, where they float and let the currents of air carry them
along the same as the currents of water had done before. Trot thought the
argonauts comical little creatures, with their big eyes and sharp noses, and to her
they looked like a fleet of tiny ships.
It is said that men got their first idea of boats and of how to sail them from
watching these little argonauts.
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