Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 478
that may be convenient. For this reasonthe professional oysterman puts large quantitiesof small stones on the oyster-beds for the use ofthe young spat. Sometimes the oysters attach themselves so asto produce rather fantastic effects; for example,on an iron hoop of which we published a pictureon… … THE WINDMILL GROUP OF OYSTERS. pearance; for example, an old boot or the oyster-mans iron digger. Sometimes they attach them-selves to one another, as in the accompanyingillustration, in which it will be noticed that all theoysters are curved in the same way, and havegrown so close together that…
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