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Uca rapax is the fiddler crab. He brandishes his big claw in a threat
display and eats with the little one.
They are good bait for sheephead.
When
I took Owen to Jack Rudloe's Gulf Specimen Lab, he wanted to steal a couple, because
nobody sells them, and they're not easy to catch. You have to know where to go.
I
probably would not have painted a fiddler crab and screwed it to the pink tile wall
in the bathroom of the house on Martin Lake, so we're better off living where we
live, now, than owning a house you can't hang home-made art on.
The crab louse
you catch off a toilet seat is related to the head louse, or cootie.
I'm glad
I don't have to wash all the linens and treat the boys' heads for lice anymore, as
we had to do when they were in grade school, and there was a cootie outbreak.
The
medicine was expensive, and it always came before payday, when you were broke.
The
ant's a centaur in his dragon world.