THE KRAKEN, 
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The Sepia, the owner of the broad, flattened bone, has a 
decided predilection for the vicinity of the shore, and for 
comparatively shallow water. It 
there attaches its grape-like eggs 
to some convenient stone or grow- 
ing alga, and delights occasionally 
to sink to the bottom, and there 
to rest half covered by the sand, 
a habit for which the form of its 
body is well adapted. But the 
calamaries — they of the horny pen 
— prefer the wide waters of the 
open ocean ; and although they, 
too, especially the smaller species, 
are common upon the coasts, they 
are frequently met with far out at 
sea, and away from any land. The 
elongated and almost arrow-like 
shape of their bodies enables them 
to glide through the water with 
great rapidity, and the momentum 
exerted by a vigorous out-rush from 
their syphon-tube is sometimes so 
great that when the opposite pres- 
sure thus produced is so exerted as 
to cause them to take an upward 
direction they leap out of the water 
to so great a height as to fall on the 
decks of ships ; and are, therefore, 
called by sailors, "flying squids." 
Their spawn is very different from 
that of either octopus, or sepia. It 
. ^ r J - . FIG. 4.— HOOKED TENTACLES 
consists ot dozens of semi-trans- of Onychoteuthis. 
