. Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside. end, for the next morning I had the satisfactionof discovering that his lordship had walked into our trap,which we had carefully placed near his cave; and now thatwe could see him face to face, we found that his strengthwas enormous as compared with his moderate size. Beingplaced in a bucket of water, such as is usually found on aships- deck, he attached his eight arms to the bottom andsides, by means of its powerful and perfect-working suction-disks, so firmly that I several times lifted the bucket, water and all, by taking hold ofthe animals body
. Ocean wonders: a companion for the seaside. end, for the next morning I had the satisfactionof discovering that his lordship had walked into our trap,which we had carefully placed near his cave; and now thatwe could see him face to face, we found that his strengthwas enormous as compared with his moderate size. Beingplaced in a bucket of water, such as is usually found on aships- deck, he attached his eight arms to the bottom andsides, by means of its powerful and perfect-working suction-disks, so firmly that I several times lifted the bucket, water and all, by taking hold ofthe animals body, andtwirled it over my more I twirled themore firmly it stuck. Anoctopus will not relax itshold on compulsion, anymore than Falstaff would give reasons. It is asself-willed as some humananimals. According to scientificclassification, the octopusbelongs to the division ofsoft-bodied Mollusca, andthe class of Cephalopoda—meaning feet proceeding from the head. Of these theoctopus, as its name indicates, has eight feet, or arms; for,. Peaely Natitiltjs (Nautilus pompilius),showing chambers inside of shell. THE OCTOPUS AND ITS CONGENERS. 73 though, these long appendages are sometimes used as feet,they are habitually used as arms. Of the octopoda family is the small paper nautilus orargonaut. How few of our readers who have admired thisbeautiful shell, with its mother-of-pearl lining, have realizedthat its former inhabitant was own cousin to the horribledevil-fish—a female cousin, we must add, for the shell is notconnected with the animal organically, but is held in positionby two of the long arms, with the sole purpose of protectingthe eggs. The male argonaut has no shell.
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