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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 670

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ard and a sponge verysoft. Yet, astonishing as it may seem, a sponge,known as the boring species, can so fill a clam-shell with holes that it looks like the top of apepper-box ! This sponge (Latin name Cliona sulphurca) isalso injurious to the shells of oysters, riddlingthem with galleries and… … A CLAM-SHELL INFESTED WITH BORING-SPONGE.From Long Island Sound. A POTATO THAT GREW THROUGH A BONE This photograph shows a potato that grewthrough a section of bone that happened to be inthe ground. The potato was found by a residentof Chandlers Valley in the State of New York.

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