Rita Boutros

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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

As for Fat Little Riga, he had gained so much glory, you must remember it was he who had discovered the smoke pipe by hanging in the chimney that it became his favourite position to the everlasting danger of the limbs of the tribe and his own head, and also to the great confusion of such unwary beings as weakly told secrets about the village fire.

End of section fifteen End of Coffee Break Collection Number twenty six It's a Small World by Varius

On the Beach by Mary Treat.

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On the beach.

Many of our young people spend the month of August at the seaside.

And if those who wish to learn something of the curious microscopic animals will stroll along the beach when the tide has receded until they come to rocky places and little pools filled with salt water and various marine plants, they will find a form of animal life quite different from that in freshwater ponds.

These little pools along the rocky coast are the homes of countless numbers of zoophytes, animals which have a stronger resemblance to plants and flowers than any we have found in freshwater.

Look for specimens for microscopic work on the surface of the rocks, on dead seashells, and on the seaweeds.

On the seaweeds you will often find a white filmy network, which to the unassisted eye looks like simple white threads running and spreading in every direction, and at every angle of the network a tiny stem shoots up, branching out like a tree and making a miniature forest.

Now if you apply a low power of the microscope, you will find the little forest is made up of a strange animal called Laumida geniculata.

Each branch of this compound animal terminates and expands into a lovely vase and is the home of a polyp.

The polyp is not a separate individual, any more than the end of a growing branch is separate from the tree on which it grows.

When the creature is hungry, he sends out from the margin of the vase from fifteen to twenty tentacles ranged around the rim like the petals of a flower.

Figure one shows one of these expanded polyps as seen through the microscope.

The tentacles or feelers are fishing rods to bring game to the fleshy mouth which is protruded from the center of the vase.

A great many such mouths surrounded with their tentacles are necessary to feed this singular compound creature.

All that I can tell you of these microscopic animals will be nothing compared to a study of them with your own eyes, so I will only give you hints of what you may expect.

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