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on Monday. We took the glaesee off the enclosure, replaced them with 
screens, tied xx^ a hole in the net top that might have been an escape 
route for the octopus, aM departed. The wind blew steady and strong 
all day. 
Monday . A good day ■ Sun, ai^ not as imich wind as on Saturday, 
thank goodness,' And BRKJh to our relief our octopus was still in the 
shooting pen. Hungiy, too. When I put my finger up to the screen he 
took hold of it and tried to pull it in. But 1 m only about so far 
with that sort of thing. He seei^ very disappointed when I pulled the 
finger away. I think actually that he would do better with the crab, or 
Eomthlng of that sort. 
The big crab was still in the holding pen, with his feet stuck through 
the mesh. He has long, sharp, black toenails, and he really can hang on. 
The crab is rvot too handy with his pincers, so Tom takes him by the cara- 
pace and pulls while I try to poke his nails back through the screen. He 
lias 80 mny lege and they are so spread out that it takes a lot of fast 
work to get him unhooked* It took a long while, but finally we managed 
and put him back with the octopus. Octopus not interested. Really appeared 
to be frightened of the big crab. Plashed white, on and off, in a fraction 
of a second. Never have seen an octopixs flash like that before. There 
were a couple of mild set-tos with the crab, but nothing of ar^ great 
consequence . 
John brought out a flamia with its flat pincers folded across its 
chest, and we added it to our collection in the shooting enclosure. Had 
to switch the octopus, however. When we found him going out of control 
