. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. jM'.^i^r^m:.. CHAPTER XII THE CUTTLE-FISH OR SQUID WE now come to the consideration of one of the mostwidelydistributed, most useful, and withal most extraordinary of all the denizens of all the seas the curious shell-les. mollusc known generaUy as the bqui Eor some strange reason, which I do not pretend to fathom, an enormous number of otherwise well-read people piuless knowledge of him under the name of Octopus. Now it should be know
. Creatures of the sea [microform] : being the life stories of some sea birds, beasts, and fishes. Marine animals; Marine fishes; Faune marine; Poissons de mer. jM'.^i^r^m:.. CHAPTER XII THE CUTTLE-FISH OR SQUID WE now come to the consideration of one of the mostwidelydistributed, most useful, and withal most extraordinary of all the denizens of all the seas the curious shell-les. mollusc known generaUy as the bqui Eor some strange reason, which I do not pretend to fathom, an enormous number of otherwise well-read people piuless knowledge of him under the name of Octopus. Now it should be known that the Oc topus IS a very humble member of this great molluscan family, never growing very large, and entirely indebted for his fame to the splendid but fataUy inaccurate pen ot Victor Hugo in the ' Toilers of the Sea' If high art m fiction be to clothe the utterly impossible as well as improbable in such fascinating language that the reader shall be crammed for the rest of his life with absurdities, then Victor Hugo was indeed the greatest fictional artist that ever lived But inaccuracy of statement is a peculiarly French cha- rac enstic. as most dabblers in science know very well However, I do not wish to be ungrateful, and 1 will at once admit that, utterly unreliable as Victor Hugo IS in any matter of fact, the fascination of his work IS Its own ample justification. The hall-mark of aU the Cephalopoda, or head- looted ones, is hideousness, and their chief character- istics, voracity and omnivorousness. To begin with 1*9 if u tfii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915. Toronto : McClelland & Goodchild
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