Well, you're going to know all about it in half a minute.
"Little Sword caught sight of a queer, watery-pinkish, speckled creature on the bottom, just crossing a space of clear sand.

It was about twice as long as himself, with a pair of terrible big, ink-black eyes, and a long bunch of squirming feelers growing out of its head like leaf-stalks out of the head of a beet.

He noticed that two of these feelers were twice as long as the rest, which did not seem to him a matter of the least importance.

But he noticed at the same time that the creature looked soft and good to eat.

The next instant, like a ray of light flashed suddenly, he darted at it.
"But swift as he was, the pale creature's inky eyes had noted him in time.