Rita Boutros

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436 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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As it may be surrounded by this singular zoophyte.

The tubes usually extend an inch or two above the surface and about as far below.

I have found the tubes surrounded with the creatures, but not in as good condition for investigation as those Mr Goss mentions.

Mine were too thick and crowded to distinguish clearly.

But as Mr.

Gus describes them, they have a most close resemblance to the human figure as they stand erect around the mouth of the tube of Sabella.

A loose network surrounds the top of the tube and the strange forms spring from the angles of the meshes.

The creatures are furnished with heads and immediately below the head are two arms.

The head moves to and fro on the neck, while the arms are tossed wildly about as if gesticulating in the most earnest manner.

Or as in the wild and disorderly dances of savages, the body sways back and forth while the arms are thrown upward and downward in a frantic way.

One summer I found a colony standing so thickly together that they did not show off to very good advantage.

Apparently they were like a packed army of Liliputians, striking out with their arms and struggling with one another.

But when I came to observe them more carefully, I found they were not interfering with one another at all.

But each was intent on his own business of obtaining a livelihood.

The sabella which inhabits the tube is of itself a most attractive object.

Most elegant fringed filaments proceed from the head and wave back and forth like a fan.

And near the ends of these delicate, slender filaments are little black balls, supposed to be eyes.

If they are eyes, the Sabella has no lack of vision.

And this may account for his seeming watchfulness.

He is always on the alert and drops down into his house at any approach.

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