280 LITTLE FOLKS 
That seems to take the strength out of the arms, for they fall 
off, until at last the Indian drags him dead into the canoe, looking 
like a lump of brown jelly. 
The Indian takes it home and roasts it. I don't know as it's 
any worse to eat him, than to eat a lobster, but I don't care to try 
it, do you ? 
The eggs of the Octopits are found in clusters, and look so 
much like branches of dark colored grapes that fishermen call them 
sea grapes. The bone that you put in the canary bird's cage 
came out of one of these Cuttle Fish, and is the only bone he has. 
