'His father dead! tush, no, it was not he;
He finds records of his great pedigree;
And tells how first his famous ancestor
Did come in long since with the Conqueror.
Nor hath some bribed herald first assigned
His quartered arms, and crest of gentle kind;
The Scottish Barnacle, if I might choose,
That of a worme, doth waxe a winged goose.'
[CHAPTER IX.]
Phyllodoce Laminosa—the Laminated Nereis
'His meaner works
Are yet his care, and have and interest all—
All, in the universal Father's love.'—Cowper.
1 COMMON BARNACLES attached to shell of Limpet
2 ANIMAL OF THE LIMPET (P. vulgata) as seen from below
3 THE LAMINATED NEREIS (Phyllodoce Laminosa)