hence the name "pen." These animals are in boats, light a large torch in each boat 

 very numerous in individuals and form a and slowly row toward the shore, driving 

 large part of the food of fishes, like the the squid, which of course swim back- 

 blue-fish, black bass, etc., and have even ward in an opposite direction from the 

 been found in the stomach of jelly-fishes, light, upon the beach, where they may be 

 Besides being eaten by the fish the squid gathered by thousands after such an ex- 

 furnishes a large part of the food of some pedition. Another method of capture is 

 whales, the former occurring frequently by jigging; the jig is made of a piece of 

 in shoals and falling ready victims to the lead some two inches in length which is 

 huge monster. armed with a circle of sharp, unbarbed 



In Norway and Sweden the people wires pointing upward and curving out- 

 have a legend of a peculiar sea-monster, ward. The process of jigging is accom- 

 called the Kraken, which was probably plished as follows : the jig is attached to 

 founded on some of the enormous squids twelve or fifteen feet of stout line and is 

 discovered during the past thirty years, lowered into the water, which is generally 

 Many of these mollusks are found off the chosen of a depth of ten feet from the side 

 coasts of Norway, Scotland and Ireland, of a small boat. When near the bottom it 

 and not a few have been recorded from is kept moving slowly up and down until 

 the coasts of Nova Scotia and New En- a squid is felt upon it, when it is suddenly 

 gland. In the larger of these animals the drawn to the surface with the squid at- 

 body is eight or ten feet long, the short tached. These squid, when caught, are 

 arms eight feet and the long, tentacular used for bait, a single fishing smack be- 

 arms thirty feet in length, making in all ing known to use as many as eighty thou- 

 an animal nearly forty feet long when sand squids in a single season, 

 fully stretched out ! The squid is greatly A familiar object to most canary-bird 

 prized as bait and frequently a royal bat- fanciers is the cuttle-bone placed in the 

 tie will take place between one of these cages of these birds for them to sharpen 

 gigantic creatures and a boat's crew. Sad their beaks upon. This "cuttle-bone" is 

 indeed is the fate of the latter if j:he mol- the internal support of the Cuttle-fish 

 lusk once gets a firm hold of the boat. (Sepia officinalis) and is homologous with 

 Care is used, however, to guard against the pen of the squid, mentioned above, 

 such a result, and the animal is gradually The animal of Sepia is short and rounded, 

 deprived of its strength by making a sud- with a large head surrounded by a row of 

 den dash, cutting off an arm and as quick- eight short arms and two very long ten- 

 ly retreating. These large squids are not tacular arms, ending in expanded clubs 

 as'common as the smaller ones and they armed with powerful suckers. Like the 

 are rarely captured. Octopus and Squid, the Cuttle-fish is ca- 



An ingenious method of capturing a pable of many changes of colors by the 

 species of the smaller squids (Ommastre- contraction and expansion of its pig- 

 pries illecebrosa) in use by the fishermen ment cells. They are found throughout 

 of the New England coast is as follows : the world, living near the shore, but the 

 The squid has the habit of swimming in species found about European shores are 

 an opposite direction to a light, as the the best known, 

 full moon, so the fishermen go out to sea Frank Collins Baker. 



God made all the creatures and gave them 



Our love and our fear, 



To give sign we and they are His children, 

 One family here. 



Robert Browning. 



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