These female itinerants may be noticed wandering about from basket to basket, occasionally gouging out a whelk from the shell with the thumb, to test the lot, and then passing on to the next.
One pound of rock-cod requires for its formation ten pounds of whelk; one pound of whelk requires ten pounds of sea-worms; and one pound of worms requires ten pounds of sea-dust.
Nutritive chains bind long series of animals together, the cod feeding on the whelk, the whelk on the worm, the worm on the organic dust of the sea.
No such thing: the Dog-whelk has done it: this is the breach which he so scientifically effected in the fortress; and hence he sucked out the soft and juicy and savoury flesh of his miserable victim.
We cannot induce the Whelk to attack his prey just when we please; but he has been detected in the operation, and I will describe it.
The sea-snails best known on the coast north of Chesapeake Bay are the whelk (Buccinum: see Fig.
The American whelk is somewhat smaller than the British variety, although it attains a length of full three inches.
He was beginning to move one when a small whelk shell near made a slight rattling on the rocks, and two little horns, with two black eyes at their roots, peeped out to see what was the matter.
The whelk had no idea how to teach any one, so the subject dropped.
It is known to fishermen as the Sting Winkle; the other species is called the Red Whelk in some parts, and in Scotland is known as the Buckie.
Sagartia parasitica) is commonly found attached to a whelk shell, which at the same time forms the home of the hermit crab, and (p.
The hermit-crab, which selects the empty shell of a whelk or winkle for its home, is probably well known to our readers.
Also, when we note the general form of the armoured portion of the body, and the position of the soft-skinned abdomen, we can see how well adapted the whole is to fit snugly into the spiral shell of a whelk or winkle.
Small whelk stud the rich background of sea-mosses like precious stones, some gamboge, some orange, others white as marble or banded with black.
Where the surf broke with its terrible thunder, countless crabs, urchins, starfish and whelk reposed in the rockweed and Irish moss.
It is obtained from several Molluscs belonging to the great Whelk family, the chief of which is the Murex brandaris.
In the Shetland Islands the red whelk is used as a lamp, being suspended by strings from a nail, the mouth placed uppermost and filled with oil.
The two kinds of whelk (Buccinum and Neptunea), are termed, the first the white whelk and the second the red or almond whelk, probably on account of the colors of the two shells.
The whelkis used economically, both for food and bait.
A roar of welkome through the welkin Is certain proof you'll find the Elk in; But if you listen to the shell, In which the Whelk is said to dwell, And hear a roar, beyond a doubt It indicates the Whelk is out.
The crab lives in the whelk shell, and the Anemone lives on the roof, as it were.
As he grows he needs a larger house, and so leaves the tight shell and pops his tail into a bigger one, generally a whelk shell.
The whelk and his cousins know how to bore a hole in the shell, and suck out the helpless Oyster.
Some of them would swallow the whelk shell, crab and all, but they would not eat one on which an Anemone was fixed.
The Whelk and Periwinkle are gathered in immense numbers, and are used by us for food.
They swell in the water, until the yellowish bundle is three times as large as the Whelk that laid it.
Canon Horsley in his study examining a rare variety of whelk (var.
So he always tucks it away in an empty shell like that of a whelk or a sea-snail, which he drags about with him wherever he goes!
You may often find these bundles on the shore in dozens; and most likely you will wonder how the whelk ever managed to lay a batch of eggs a good deal bigger than itself.
When, in crawling about, they come upon a whelk or clam or oyster, they creep over it and clasp it in their five arms in a murderous embrace from which there is no escape.
But the fact is that the eggs of the whelk are just like those of the frog.
Wondering what I could do that they might not go supperless to bed, I strolled along the sands by the sea in the hope of finding some odd limpet or whelk which, together with a few dried dandelion leaves, might make a simple stew.
Nothing really matters," thought he, "and as I feel a bit peckish I may as well eat up friend whelkand the blue pointlet 'll come in for a light breakfast in the morning.
A heart of rock would have melted at the cries of your victim, but you, ungenerous, can have no heart at all, and entirely drag the name of whelk through the mud.
Our friend of the whelk stall was surveying the scene with intense disfavour.
If the shell had been five yards short, it would have burst in the trench, and my whelk friend would have whelked no more.
I've got a great pal in my section--who kept a whelk stall down in Whitechapel.
It is obtained from several Shell Fish belonging to the greatWhelk family, the chief of which is the Murex brandaris.
