Jory walked along in front of the Fire Crabs' cages trying to decide which one he would take care of. He wasn't afraid of them anymore. Okay, maybe he was a bit. You never know when one of them would just explode with fire. Most of the Crabs seem to be staring at him as he stopped to examine one with bright red jewels on its back. "Hello, there,'' the boy said, staring back at the crab.''I think I'll work on you,'' he added, quickly making up his mind.

The badger extracted it carefully from its cage and placed it on the ground before him. "Let’s see,'' he murmured, as he turned his attention to the tail. If he remembered correctly, males have longer and wider ones and females' were shorter and narrower. The crab had a long tail and it was certainly wide. "So, you're a guy crab then,'' Jory said.''Good. Now I can name you.''

He thought maybe of giving it a regular boy name but soon decided he would name it something that sounded... crab like. He had given the name Mr. Krabbs to the one he had worked on in class. "I think I'll call you Crabby,'' Jory told the Crab who still seemed to be staring at him. He grabbed the name tag from which was stuck on the cage and quickly wrote: