Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 424
pears, pla-cing himself, by a series of backward jerks, ata long distance from his dreaded enemy. But while the squid feeds upon smaller ani-mals, matters are nicely balanced, since he, inturn, forms the food of larger ones. His bodyis muscular and soft, and has no skeletonor other hard parts to… … A SQUID CAPTURING A SMALL FISH. (DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE.) the siphon. When the water in the sack is sopressed by the muscles, it is squeezed outthrough this tube in a very forcible jet. Theforce of the water thus shot out is such as todrive the squid backward with great rapidity.When…
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