Then bread-and-
butter and salad were found to be very refreshing. But while
Daisy ate, she looked at the trilobite.
"Please tell me what it is, Captain Drummond."
"It is a Crustacean."
"But, you know, I don't know what a Crustacean is."
"A Crustacean is a fellow who wears his bones on the outside."
"Captain Drummond! What do you mean?"
"Well, I mean that, Daisy. Did you never hear of the way
soldiers used to arm themselves for the fight in old times in
plates of jointed armour?"
"Yes, I know they did."
"Well, these fellows are armed just so — only they do not put
on steel or brass, but hard plates of bone or horn, that do
exactly as well, and are jointed just as nicely."
"And those are Crustaceans?"
"Those are Crustaceans."
"And was this thing armed so?"
"Splendidly. Don't you see those marks? — those show the rings
of his armour. Those rings fitted so nicely, and played so
easily upon one another, that he could curl himself all up
into a ball if he liked, and bring his armour all round him;
for it was only on his back, so to speak."
"And how came he into this rock, Captain Drummond?"
"Ah! how did he?" said the Captain, looking contentedly at the
trilobite.
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