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deck of the vessel downwards, parallel 
with the keel, become curves in Fig. 4. 
In Fig. 7 botii sets of lines appear as 
straight lines at riglit angles to each 
other. Of course in the actual construc- 
tion drawin;4S of a large vessel many more 
lines than are here shown are inserted; 
but we think sufficient has been said to 
show the principle involved, and to make 
it i)lain that the w^orkman has in these 
three plans the exact position of each 
point of a vessel's exterior clearly indi- 
cated. 
(To he Contimied.) 
Fried Ink-Pots. 
BY A. W. EGBERTS. 
EIED ink-pots ? Yes, " fried ink- 
pots;" fried in lard or olive 
oil, and mighty nice they are, 
too! Just as tender and sweet 
as fried scallops, which in flavor and tex- 
ture they resemble very closely. Many 
and many is the ink-pot I've captured at 
night-time, and the darker the night the 
better luck one has, for it stands to rea- 
son that the glare from a jack-lamp or 
bull's-eye dark-lantern will have a 
stronger fascination over these uncanny- 
looking creatures on a pitch-dark night 
than on a moonlight or starlight night. 
Poor devils! (they belong to the devil 
tishes) they can't resist the temptation, 
the fascination of a glare of ( ondensed 
light. They will swim right up to it, and 
into it, staring at it all the while with 
their unearthly, baneful-looking eyes. 
Tlien's the time to snake 'em in ! All one 
has to do is to softly and slowly slide a 
long-handled and shallow scap-net under 
them ; then quickly lift them into the 
boat and as quickly dispatch them with a 
few thrusts of a pen- knife, for if this pre- 
caution is not taken they will pump out 
and eject a black fluid from their funnels, 
which is called the ink. From this habit 
of ejecting an inky fluid they have been 
christened by the fishermen of Long 
Island ' ' Ink-Pots. ' ' The fishermen of the 
Massachusetts coast have named them 
squid; naturalists, the Loligo pallida. I 
have concluded that for a common, pop- 
ular, and well-fitting name, in pure and 
simple English, ink-pot is good. If some 
of the inky fluid is i)ricked into the skin, 
the same as in India-ink, it will produce 
a blue-colored tattoo, like India-ink, and 
it is said, on good authority, that the 
India-ink of the Chinese and Japanese is 
made from a similar substance, that is 
obtained from a variety of this fish, 
which is an inhabitant of the waters of 
Fig. 1. 
China and Japan. The same is the case 
with the coloring substance known as 
sepia, which is derived from the Sepia 
apicinalis, also a related variety of the 
Loligo pallida. The original sketch from 
which the engraving of the ink-pot (Fig. 
1) was produced was drawn entirely with 
the ink that w^as taken from several of 
these strange inhabitants of the ocean. 
