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ever seen,” and also of the pranks which the ladies 
played with his scoop-net in the ponds. He spoke of 
these travellers with their purses full of guineas, just as 
our provincial fathers used to speak of British bloods in 
the time of King George the Third. 
Quid loquar f Why repeat what he told us ? 
“ Ant Scyllam Nisi, qnam fama secuta est, 
Candida snccinctam latrantibus in^na monstris, 
Dulichias vexasse rates, et gnrgite in alto 
Ah timidos nautas canibus lacerasse marinis ? ” 
In the course of the evening I began to feel the po¬ 
tency of the clam which I had eaten, and I was obliged 
to confess to our host that I was no tougher than the cat 
he told of; but he answered, that he was a plain-spoken 
man, and he could tell me that it was all imagination. At 
any rate, it proved an emetic in my case, and I was made 
quite sick by it for a short time, while he laughed at my 
expense. I was pleased to read afterward, in Mourt’s 
Relation of the landing of the Pilgrims in Provincetown 
Harbor, these words: “We found great muscles (the 
old editor says that they were undoubtedly sea-clams) 
and very fat and full of sea-pearl; but we could not eat 
them, for they made us all sick that did eat, as well 
sailors as passengers,.but they were soon well 
again.” It brought me nearer to the Pilgrims to be 
thus reminded by a similar experience that I was so 
like them. Moreover, it was a valuable conlirmation 
of their story, and I am prepared now to believe every 
word of Mourt’s Relation. I was also pleased to find 
that man and the clam lay still at the same angle to one 
another. But I did not notice sea-pearl. Like Cleo¬ 
patra, I must have swallowed it. I have since dug 
these clams on a flat in the Bay and observed them. 
