. Shells and sea-life. except that it has a star with a mouthin the center. It has eight arms instead of five,and there is a big round knob in the center, andwhat looks like a pair of eyes. And it is so it be a kind of starfish? Not at all; though I do notwonder at your mistake. It is aCuttle-fish, or Octopus. It isreally a mollusk, but very dif-ferent from a snail or a eight arms have suckersunder them, and these arms areto seize and hold the food, muchlike the points of a starfish. Butthe cuttle has a beak, and doesnot have to turn himself insideout when he eats. Your cut
. Shells and sea-life. except that it has a star with a mouthin the center. It has eight arms instead of five,and there is a big round knob in the center, andwhat looks like a pair of eyes. And it is so it be a kind of starfish? Not at all; though I do notwonder at your mistake. It is aCuttle-fish, or Octopus. It isreally a mollusk, but very dif-ferent from a snail or a eight arms have suckersunder them, and these arms areto seize and hold the food, muchlike the points of a starfish. Butthe cuttle has a beak, and doesnot have to turn himself insideout when he eats. Your cuttleis a very little one, but they have been found manyfeet in length, — so large, in fact, that a man wouldnot like to meet one of them. A near relative of the cuttle is the Squid, whichhas a long, slender body with a fin at the head has a ring of tentacles around it, likethe cuttle-fish, and the creature has two staringeyes. Great numbers of small squid are caughtat night by Chinese fishermen. They go out on. Figure 186 WESTERN SERIES OF READERS. still nights with great, blazing torches. When themollusks come up to see the light, the}^ are clijipedup in scoop-nets and emptied into the boats. The next day the Chinese lay them out onframes to dry, or even spread them on the groundand turn them with a rake. When they are quitedry, they are packed in great bags and shippedto China for food. Now, Mary, you are the last;what have you to show us? 0, I have so many things. There are wormsand sponges, and so many things of which I donot know the names. Well, well. But there goes the bell for the lec-ture. We will take Marys jar with us, and thisafternoon we will sit down and see what she hascollected. BLACKBOARD WORDS. formalin (forma-lin), zoology (zo-olo-gy), salleeman(salle-man), octopus (okto-pus, or ok-topQs).
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