Show oyster SO 80 years old ain An oyster eighty years pid old has been token taken from delaware bay it la Is reported scientific investigators agree and assert that tt ageos age ot an oyster Is indicated by illges or waterlines on its shell baliell ju jiin As a the ogo age of a tree la Is indicated by the annual rings that form on its tra trunk A ridge appears on nn an oyster every year according to these sa up to the fortieth year after that the shell takes on n one only every ten years this venerable delaware oyster had 44 ridges hence it was waa e eighty years old I 1 |