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into their rank, but faced them. When they withdrew, stern first, 

 to the back of the tank, the lonely one followed them up with a 

 pas sad. But there the similitude ended. He was repeatedly 

 driven backwards to his former position, and was not allowed 

 the privilege of taking his partner with him. 



These "little squids" are impudently voracious. I have seen 



Fig. 9. The common Squid [Loligo vulgaris) and its internal horny shell, or "pen. 



one in single combat with a young dog-fish about four inches 

 long. At first I thought the fish was the aggressor, and had 

 seized one of the tentacular arms of the little Loligo as a good sub- 

 stitute for a worm ; but it was soon apparent that the affray had 

 been provoked by the carnivorous cephalopod, and that the 

 puppy -fish would get the worst of it ; — so they were separated. 

 The common squid {LoUgo vulgaris) is sometimes met with by 



