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Show Good Matured Nature Stories. $& Clams That Drown Men. TIIOSU of u? whose acquaintance with clams embraces only the Little Neck variety nre slow to think evil of any members of so delightful a family, but the inoffenshc Little Neck has some big brothers who igorousiy resent any attempt to pry Into their personal affairs. Men have accidentally stepped Into the open jaws of these huge clams at low tide, nud tlic clams. clo3lng their jaws, have held them fast until the tide ro?e, when the men were drowned Other mcu havo reached for a lure in the form of n lum-. inom spot. The instant they touched it ibe shells of a clam closed on their anus and in a few minutes tho men were drowned. Some of these cinms that trap men are found imbedded In the coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian occaus. and the men captured are pearl divers. The flesh of one of those huge dams sometimes weighs twenty pounds, and added to that is the five hundred pounds or more of shell. The shell Is sometimes five feet long by two and three-quarters wide. |