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its house, and sits down to fishing in a small way 
for an honest and respectable livelihood. 
A piece of timber covered with Stalked Bar- 
nacles, wriggling and twisting about like so many 
helmeted snakes, and waving their plume-like 
curhi, is @ very curious sight. They sometimes 

attach themselves to ships’ bottoms in such num- 
bers as to retard their progress through the water ; 
they do not, however, bore into and destroy the 
timber, like the Teredines, or ship-worms, to which 
we have alluded in our brief notice of the Pholada. 
The growth of Barnacles must be very rapid, as a 
