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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
parent tubes moving in the groove under each of his 
five rays (A, Fig. 36, and / /, Fig. 37). The whole of 
the under part of his body will be waving like a field 
of corn, as each tube-foot in its turn is stretched out, 
bent forward, and fastened to the glass.. Then after 
drawing the body a little on, it will loosen again and 
collapse into a mere knob, while another will lengthen 
out and take a hold. In this way, as tube after tube 
draws it forwards, the body of the star-fish will be 
Fig. 36. 
A, The common five-fingered Star-fish.* The dark round spot 
between the lower rays is the water-hole. B, The Brittle Star-fish. + 
carried easily along the bottom or up the sides of the 
glass like a canopy resting upon the heads of more 
than two thousand bearers. 
And now if you look in the centre of the under 
part of his body you will see a small opening with 
the skin puckered up round it. This is his mouth 
(;//, Fig. 37), and if ycu place a small mussel or lira- 
* Urasttr rubens. f Oghiocoma bellis. 
