We were soon IN the tide pool.
The water was fresh and clear.
I sauntered over to a scruffy starfish who was lying under a mossy rock near the shore and casually started a conversation.
"Hello there. Nice day isn't it. Have you been hanging out here long?"
"Hullo ", said the starfish, " Yeah, I been here all morning. Nuttin' much doing down here today! Say, you're Constable Crab, ain'tcha--what's happenin', Constable?"
"I'm here with my old friend Hermit Crab--seems like his house has gone missing--"
"Missing house, you say, well I haven't seen and houses running loose around here--hyuck! hyuck!"
"Well, you know old Hermit's habits, Mr. Starfish--his house was actually sort of an abandoned whelk shell."
"No kidding! I DID see a whelk shell a while ago--but it WASN'T empty!"
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