Show MOST DREADED SEA MONSTER octopus more to be feared thaia that enemy of all swimming things 1 the shark it can you imagine a snail so hig big and so powerful that lie he can overcome the strongest nian man ills his name why the octopus octopi is that fearsome monster iA who ioe e eight long arms anus covered with pov powerful kerful suckers can enfold and hold fast the strongest human swimmer or the fiercest an and most active fish the octopus Is a huge snail whose shell Is contained n his body normally lie he laes nt at the bottom of the sea thrusting hs sott soft pulpy body into a hole in the rocks and allowing ills his tentacles to wave to and fro in the water unter in fearce of any luckless prey that may come their dayi if one of his arms tou touches clips anything living it adheres to it immediately first one arm and then another is wrapped around the struggling thing until it Is held so fast that it Is incapable of movement then the tentacles contract and bring their captive to the beaklike mouth the octopus can move through the water a ter 11 nt t an amazing speed sned 1 ile he does tills ill by filling ills his body with water and then then squirting it out violently it if pursued by an enemy he tb throws rows out a und kind of screen by 63 discharging the contents of ills his sepia cepla bag |