Our next installment from the Memorial Library scrap pile.
The quote at the bottom reads:
"I could see nothing but a pair of very bright eyes; but concluding that the eyes had an owner, I determined very rashly to secure him. ...I put my hand down very quietly so as not to ruffle the water, when, suddenly, to my surprise, it was seized with a pressure far too ardent to be agreeable, and I was held fast." From "A Chapter on Cuttle-Fishes" by Lucie L. Hartt (American Naturalist, 1869, 3:257-261).
Far too ardent to be agreeable indeed.
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