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    The Rotifers
    The Rotifers
    The Rotifers
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    The Rotifers

    By Robert Abernathy

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Rotifers - Robert Abernathy

      THE ROTIFERS

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license.

      Title: The Rotifers

      Author: Robert Abernathy

      Release Date: April 16, 2011 [EBook #35879]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: UTF-8

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROTIFERS ***

      Produced by Frank van Drogen, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      THE ROTIFERS

      BY Robert Abernathy

      Beneath the stagnant water shadowed by water lilies Harry found the fascinating world of the rotifers—but it was their world, and they resented intrusion.

      Illustrated by Virgil Finlay

      Henry Chatham knelt by the brink of his garden pond, a glass fish bowl cupped in his thin, nervous hands. Carefully he dipped the bowl into the green-scummed water and, moving it gently, let trailing streamers of submerged water weeds drift into it. Then he picked up the old scissors he had laid on the bank, and clipped the stems of the floating plants, getting as much of them as he could in the container.

      When he righted the bowl and got stiffly to his feet, it contained, he thought hopefully, a fair cross-section of fresh-water plankton. He was pleased with himself for remembering that term from the book he had studied assiduously for the last few nights in order to be able to cope with Harry's inevitable questions.

      There was even a shiny black water beetle doing insane circles on the surface of the water in the fish bowl. At sight of the insect, the eyes of the twelve-year-old boy, who had been standing by in silent expectation, widened with interest.

      What's that thing, Dad? he asked excitedly. What's that crazy bug?

      I don't know its scientific name, I'm afraid, said Henry Chatham. But when I was a boy we used to call them whirligig beetles.

      He doesn't seem to think he has enough room in the bowl, said Harry thoughtfully. Maybe we better put him back in the pond, Dad.

      I thought you might want to look at him through the microscope, the father said in some surprise.

      I think we ought to put him back, insisted Harry. Mr. Chatham held the dripping bowl obligingly. Harry's hand, a thin boy's hand

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