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Show NOT A PLEASANT COrvipANION. Landlubber Clad When Captured Squid Wa Set at Liberty. Having caught a aquld, a lendluhbe, at sea thui describes him: "Th squid Is a smai; cousin of the octopus. octo-pus. He is snout on foot long from tbe tip of his tall to the tip of hi tentacles (extended). Normally, he I of a pale Ian and rich sienna, with darker spots; hut ho has th powei to become. If frightened, almost colorless col-orless In an Instant. In eitretni I fright he discharges a dirty brown s H crotlon, in the manner of hla kind, and I escapes while tho enemy I enver fl oped In the Impenetrable smudge. Th I head la principally arms, with a for H mldable parrotliku beak In th cer I ter; while his eyea are located lust H back of the arm cluster. Tha tall la R of the shapo of a spearhead, with rounded barbs. I did not eismln I him very closely, becaus of his snake Ilk tenlucles; and, further, because) I hla beak, rasping on the spear-Iron. was most unpleasant. We dropped hint 1 overboard and I waa glad to ace bins 1 o." I |