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My mouthpiece is of the people: too coarsely and cordially do I talk for Angora rabbits. And still stranger soundeth my word unto all ink-fish and pen-foxes. My hand is a fool's hand: woe unto all tables and walls, and whatever hath room for fool's sketching, fool's scrawling!
These expressions of Themistocles made Eurybiades suspect that if he retreated the Athenians would fall off from him. When one of Eretria began to oppose him, he said, "Have you anything to say of war, that are like an ink-fish? you have a sword, but no heart."
"Eat, eat; good!" he said. "Do you take some of it," I observed, unwilling to begin. He immediately did so, swallowing a good portion. "What is it?" I asked. "You know; what sailor call `squid," he answered. "Dem very good." I now guessed that it was octopus, or ink-fish, the favourite food of the sperm whale.
He accordingly obeyed; and, saddened and despairing, was led back a prisoner to the Indian camp. We have heard of a fish, known in the humble fisherman's parlance as the ink-fish, which, when pursued by an enemy, has the power of tinging the water in its immediate vicinity with such a dark color, that its pursuer is completely befogged and gives up the hopeless chase in disgust.
"They're going about with him still," said a hoary old maid of a Carp, who carried her misfortune about with her, so that she was quite hoarse. In her youth she had once swallowed a hook, and still swam patiently about with it in her gullet. "A writer? That means, as we fishes describe it, a kind of cuttle or ink-fish among men."
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