Emery County Progress | 1904-09-10 | Page 2 | Not a Pleasant Companion

NOT A PLEASANT COMPANION landlubber glad when squid was set at liberty having caught a squid a at sea thus describes him tb squid Is a smal cousin of the octopus he ie about one toot long from the tip of his tall to the tip of hi tentacles extended normally he if 0 a pale tan and rich sienna with darker spots but he has the power to become it frightened almost col orless in an instant in fright he discharges a dirty brown crealon in the manner of his kind aej escapes while the enemy Is anvel aped in the impenetrable smudge atif head Is principally arms with a tor beak in the cen ter while his eyes are located just back of the arm cluster the tell of the shape of a spearhead with rounded barbs I 1 did not examine him very closely because of bla like tentacles and further blaur his beak rasping on the iron was most unpleasant we dropped overboard and I 1 was glad to ee hir eo