Starfish and crab

(1980 memoirs)
What does it matter about the train trip [to Florida] or the town decided on?  The big thing was that they were right on the ocean; and so Frankie could study the marine life and gather shells.  And how she loved getting out the spiny starfish and bottled fiddler crab and telling Lorin all about them!  She rarely had an audience, and he never had such an ardent lecture!  None of his relatives with the exception of Auntie Mabel ever could care enough to bring such treasures home.  And Mabel wasn't an animal lover.