26 FISHING FOR MONEY-SHELLS. 
stabs this comblike affair into the sand at the 
bottom of the water, and after giving two or 
three prods draws it up to look at it: if he has been 
successful, perhaps four or five money-shells 
have been impaled on the teeth of the spear. It 
is a very ingenious mode of procuring them, for 
it would be quite impracticable either to dredge 
or net them out; and they are never, as far 
as I know, found between tide-marks. 
