HABIT* OJ MI I. ( I.I'll \ i. MI -MI i \. 



lish nil from his hold on tin- rrU>. lint \vilhul elleet I'm- tome 

 tiim. ,\i l:i-t the fish, perhaps thinking il had uilieient 



hold or pouer upon ils prey, loosened itself iVoin th. ;ind 



(jnickl\ transferred ils feeler^ or a rm- around tin- di\- 

 :md liodv. In t his position Smale thought the lest thin-.: for 



him to do \\ : up on deck afl BOOH as pn^iUe. and he 



<|uickly made lor the ladder which reaches IV ..... the deck of the 

 pun! In tin- bottom ol' the river. The diver \\.-is certainly :i 

 curious looking object when In- came up. This hum'. u.irly look- 

 in- thinu, appeared to lie eiil :inulel : dl over him, holding him in 

 :i linn einlr;iee. However. Mr. Simile's fellow-workmen w.-iv 

 not lono in I'reeiiiir l'i"i iVom the nnt'riendly hii^ol' his snlim.-irine 

 com|);inion. r l'he lody portion of the Octopus w;is only :iloni 

 the -ixe of .M l.-irji'i- soiip-pl.M 1 1 1 . with eyes in its head like those ol' 

 :i --lieep. hut it i i nine anus, each ahout lour I'eet in 



leii-th. at the luitt a- thick as a man's wrist, taperini: oil' at the 

 eml to as tine a point as that of a penknife ; thus it could spread 

 o\eran area of D feet in diameter. All the wayalon^ the under- 

 neath part of each feeler are suckers every (piarter of an inch, 

 U-ivinu" it immense power. Mr. Smale declares it was powerful 

 enough to keep three nun under water. \Vd mm mlntnl ( A n*- 

 I nil 'in 



VII. Lucie L. Haiti thus relates her experience with an 

 < )etopu- : 



It was during my lirst \isit to IJra/il, that one day. while 

 luisily i-ii^aii'i'd in examininu" a reef at a little town on the coaM 

 railed (Juaraparx . my eye fell on an object in a shallow tide- 

 pool, parked away in the crevice of the reef, which excited my 

 curiosity. I could see nothing luit a pair of very hri^ht 

 but, Concluding thai the eyes had an owner. I determined very 

 rashly t<> -t cure him. I had been handlini: corals, and seemed 

 to have forgotten that all the inhabitants of the sea are not harm- 

 |C88. I put my hand down very ipiietly < M-> not to rullle the 

 waier. when, suddenly, to my sur|rise. it was ^ci /.! with a p 



far too ardent to lie auTeea llc. and I was held fast. I 

 hard to ^et : i\vay. Imt this uncivil individual, whoever he 

 .-i-. evidently had MS -troiii: a hold "\\ the rocks as he had on 



