Two hours later I stumbled indoors bathed in sweat, throbbing from caterpillar stings, and covered so thickly with red clay that I could have passed for a Romertopf cooker. My husband burst out laughing and led me to a mirror.

Clearly it remains to be proved that shell-fish are altogether unconcerned in the matter of human helminthism; yet I quite believe that danger from this source is limited to certain mollusks living in eastern waters.

We bumped into each other earlier, so we came together in a taxi.

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