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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
Fig. 6 1. 
who, having met with misfortune, have had the good 
sense to set to work and earn their daily bread in 
quiet obscurity ; and among the lower animals we 
have seen that 
many, like the 
sponge and oy- 
ster, give up the 
free roving life of 
their childhood, 
and settle down 
upon one spot. 
But who ever be- 
fore heard of a 
creature, which, 
after swimming 
about in a ra- 
tional manner 
with an eye or 
eyes to see with, 
and antennae to 
feel with, behav- 
ing like an ordi- 
nary and respect- 
able individual, 
should put its 
forehead down to 
a rock and ce- 
ment it there by 
means of glue from its antennae, and should remain 
thus all the rest of its life with its head downwards and 
its heels in the air, kicking its food into its mouth ? J 
* Lepas. t Balanus. 
J Huxley, Anatomy of Invertebrates, p. 294. 
A Group of Floating Barnacles* with a 
bank of fixed Acorn - Barnacles f in the fore- 
ground, s, Fleshy stalks growing from the 
head of the barnacle ; c, cirrhi by which the 
animals feed ; v, the inner valves of the acorn 
barnacle which open and close. 
