THE CREATURES OF THE SEA. 15 



Some may think that the name "mudsill" is a 

 term of reproach. Well, it is sometimes used so, 

 in reference to men; for no man likes to be com- 

 pared to a log sunk in the mud; but with mollusks 

 it is different. They are fitted for the mud, they 

 get their food there, and they have never been 

 known to complain of their location, or to be 

 ashamed of their lowly home. 



BLACKBOARD WORDS. 



barnacles (bar'na-klz), hydroids (hfdroids), mollusk 

 (mol'lusk), cephalopod (sefal-o-pod), gasteropod (gas'ter- 

 o-pod), pelecypod (pel'i-si-pod), particular (par-tik'u-lar), 

 tentacles (ten'ta-klz), prominent (prom'i-nent), genera 

 (jen'e-ra), the plural of genus (je'nus) ; species (spe'shez), 

 abyss (a-bis'). 



