Show t t It FIGHT WITH A DEVILFISH Giant Squid Nearly Sinks a ton 40 Smack Off Newfoundland A forty ton forty ton vessel the Vivid of Fortune Fortune For For- tune Bay Newfoundland rec recently escaped d by a narrow margin from beIng beIng being be be- ing drawn to the bottom of the sea seaby seaby seaby by a giant giant- squid squid- The vessel was off Cape St. St Marys Mary's when the lookout thought he discovered a mammoth lump of ambergris floating at a distance dis distance dis- dis tance of yards When the vessel approached sufficiently near to the supposed ambergris Joseph Ellis whose duty it was to use the gaff struck at the floating object In the the twinkling of an eye the still thing drifting idly on the waters became a ademon a ademon demon furious with life thrashing grappling squirming feeling for everything within Its Us reach Great clouds of inky stuff dyed the water A monstrous beak pecked at the vivId's oaken sides Two giant eyes focused on the deck seeking something to seize Instead of ambergris Ellis ElUs had struck a devilfish Out of the depths arose a bewilder Ing array of tentacles twisting and crawling all over the smack They fastened on the bulwarks alid and squirmed Inboard They felt their way around the masts and up the flattened sails All An the while the ponderous ponderous pon pone derous beak of this demon thing of the deep was pounding at the ship eager to sink It The Vivid lay on the tumbling seas like a dead thing with the octopus madly madly- trying to drag It down into the depths Knives and axes there fairly fal ly screamed the captain to the men who stood stupefied on deck As if to meet the coming battle to the death the devilfish seized the masts in a firm grip with two- two of its stoutest tentacles Then It tried to sink to the bottom of the sea bent on dragging the schooner with it Round and round it wrapped its feelers about abou the spars sending up fresh ones to aid those th that t had bpd already taken hold Slowly the sturdy Vivid b began gan to yield to the mIg mighty ty arms that reached d up out of th the waves waves ov Over r and over 1 I n r she bent The big body that thrashed In th the water fought more and more madly to to tilt over the boat till she capsized Just then the monster threw u up more of its tentacles and in fn a second Moulton the captain Ellis ElUs and a sailor sail sail- or named Jeans were held fast by the pow powerful arms Another r sailor had fortunately seized an ax and with resounding resounding resounding re re- sounding blows he severed one after another of the mighty arms until his his companions were freed The monster soon began to loose its hold of the vessel and slowly dropped back I into to the waters aters which had been made inky Inley black by the smelling foul fluid which it had squirted from Its body With difficulty the Vivid vIvid made port port i ifor for there was a hole In her side made by tho the beak of the squid while her ber masts and sails were scarred and torn torn by the giant arms which which which- had all but pulled her d down wn to the depths |