Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 423
m into a very small compass, so that they almost disappear, and then the body assumes agrayish, transparent appearance. It is a beau-tiful sight to hold a live squid in ones hands,and watch the play of colors flashing over thebody as these color drops contract and expand.Since the drops are not all… … A SQUID ESCAPING FROM AN ENEMY BY DISCHARGING A JET OF INK. (DRAWN BY THEAUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE.) But the chief means of escape is an extraor-dinary power of locomotion. The squids bodyis surrounded by a large sack, called the man-tle, which is attached along the back, but widelyopen around the…
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