“Pooh!” exclaimed Alice laughingly, “it isn’t a bug! It’s a crawdad!”
“But look,” cried Mary Jane; “he’s gone!”
To be sure! Even as Mary Jane was watching him, the queer little crawdad had quickly dug himself a hole in the ground and hidden down in it.
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“It’s like magic!” cried Mary Jane; “look! There goes another one!”
“Mary Jane, I’ll tell you what let’s us do!” exclaimed Alice, “let’s find crawdads on the beach and then watch ’em dig in.”
“What’ll we put ’em in when we find ’em?” asked Mary Jane excitedly.
“Oh,” Alice hesitated and looked around, “I know. Put them in here.” She whisked off her rubber bathing cap and made it into a bag shape and ran down nearer the water to find the tiny crabs.