BARNACLE GEESE GOOSE BARNACLES. 



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Bernachiae ; and this word is also used by them proverbially to desig- 

 nate a person whom they wish to rebuke for indolence and vacillation ; 



FIGj 36. THE TREE WHOSE LEAVES WHEN THEY FALL ON THE LAND ARE 

 CHANGED INTO BIRDS, AND WHEN THEY FALL INTO WATER BECOME 



FISHES. After Claude Duret, 1605. 



as much as to say that he is neither flesh nor fish. The following is 

 the history of a most remarkable prodigy. There was brought to the 

 French King a shell, not very large, within which was a little Dird, 



