Little Follies, “Do Clams Bite?” Chapters 12 and 13: ONE MORE SHORT DIGRESSION, this time on the sizes of clams. When the day’s clamming is over, the clammy culls the clams, sorting them by size. There are four sizes of Mercenaria mercenaria in the wild: seeds, littlenecks, cherrystones, and chowder clams.
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32: One more short digression . . .
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Little Follies, “Do Clams Bite?” Chapters 12 and 13: ONE MORE SHORT DIGRESSION, this time on the sizes of clams. When the day’s clamming is over, the clammy culls the clams, sorting them by size. There are four sizes of Mercenaria mercenaria in the wild: seeds, littlenecks, cherrystones, and chowder clams.