Identifier: fairyroadstoscie00hard (find matches)
Title: Fairy roads to Science-Town
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hardy, Mary Earle, 1846-1928
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d living sponges, tossed up by(109) FAIRY ROADS TO SCIENCE-TOWN the waves, on Florida beaches; and later I sawthem brought up from sea bottoms by thesponge gatherers, who collect and preparethem for the market. When alive, they arebright enough to be beautiful sea plants—scarlet and yellow and shining black. Butsince they cannot live out of the water, thesoft sponge animals soon lose their bright col-ours, die and decay, leaving the tough, fibrousskeletons which we call sponges. Patsy squeezed his sponge-skeleton withnew understanding. It is well for the sponge animals, AuntRuth went on, ^^that their skeletons are socoarse and tough, or they would be eaten, forthe sea is full of hungry mouths. You see that your sponge is full of holes,big and little. When the sponge animals werealive, the small holes were like little pores ormouths, drinking in the sea water, which wascarried through queer little stomachs. Themouths were small that they might strain out(iiol ij Hi I I ii 1, L Ji-^PJ
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