Identifier: inbrookbayouorli00bayl (find matches)
Title: In brook and bayou; or, Life in the still waters
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Bayliss, Clara Kern, 1848-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ke two tri-angles Joined at their apexes, and resembles noother eye that ever was on land or sea. In the matter of diet the cyclops is likethe giant of the Greek fable, for it is a regularcannibal, devouring beings like itself, and eveneating its own young; w^hich is perhaps a goodthing, since there are thirty species of them,and even though they do eat their kind, thereare plenty left, and they may be found all theworld round and all the year round. Theyabound in all stagnant pools, in the water 138 IN BROOK AND BAYOU. whicli the Londoner drinks, in that from Cro-ton River which quenches the thirst of theresident of New York, and there is a littlefellow skipping about in the pitcher of Spring-field (Illinois) well water that stands on mytable as I write. This one is a pale little fel-low, coming from so far below the sunlight;but it has egg sacks, as I can tell without amicroscope, because it ends abruptly at therear, as if cut square off, instead of taperingtoward the tail. CHART IV
Text Appearing After Image:
Hydra, CHAPTER VII. THE HUNGEY GLOVE.(Hychoe.) As late as November 10, 1889, I dippedsome water and duckweed from my favoritepond and put it in a glass Jar. An old man incharge of the city waterworks near by, whohad many times watched this canning of sloughwater with an expression of wondering disap-probation, at length took courage to come for-ward and investigate the matter. Ive beenpuzzling myself over what you do with that,he said. I put it under the microscope and studythe animals in it. Animals ? Taddypoles and sich ? heasked, incredulously. No, much smaller ones. Look throughthis jar toward the light. Those specks dart-ing and jerking about are cypris, daphnia, andCyclops. 11 139 140 IN BROOK AXD BAYOU. Be them dirt specks animals ? Now, dotell! Dirt specks always fall to the bottom.They cant dart uj) toward the top and side-wise. And in here there are probably tinyhollow tubes, called Hydrce^ with fingers ortentacles at the end which look like a verysmall kid glove rolled toge

Note About Images