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etc. Not infrequently vessels put into port 
and have these incrustations which grow bur- 
_densome, removed. Others, more nomadic per- 
haps in their dispositions, attach themselves to 
the bodies of whales, of sharks, etc., and while 
stationary are still among the greatest of tray- 
elers. 
“When myths and science were much in- 
termingled, the barnacle was believed to be the 
embryo of a goose, hence called the barnacle 
goose. We find one of the learned men of the 
sixteenth century describing: ‘A thing mm form 
like a lace of silke finely woven, the first that 
appeareth when the shell gapeth open. A little 
later the legs of the bird hang out. In short 
space of time it cometh to maturity and falleth 
into the water, where it becometh a fowl.’ 
While science has dissolved this fable, it is 
known notwithstanding that the barnacle does 
pass through transitions quite as wonderful.” 
The children fell to examining barnacles, 
the doctor to musing, presumably upon science. 
Miss Bremely sat watching the waves that 
came riding up the sand like restless, foaming 
steeds. Presently she began singing softly Sid- 
ney Lanier’s exquisite lines entitled 
