98 THE HAUNTS OF LIFE 
between the five valves of a shell that protects 
the main body of the barnacle, six pairs of 
feather-like limbs can be protruded, which 
waft microscopic organisms and particles into 
the mouth. So much for the ordinary ship- 
FIG. 10. 
A. Tue FLoatinc BarNacLe, with a 
self-made Buoy on the Stalk between 
it and a piece of Floating Seaweed. 
B. A CoMMoN BARNACLE. 
barnacle, hundreds of which may sometimes 
be found attached to a log which is tossed up 
on the beach by a storm after having drifted, 
it may be, across the Atlantic. 
The particular kind of barnacle which we 
