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in stone walls, and large stones are scattered through the farm, 
among the Oysters that live on the ground. Of course the babies 
live on the stones. There are thousands of these farms on the 
shores of France, and they even go so far as to improve the flavor 
of the common Oyster, by artificial feeding. 
Don't you think it must have been a brave man who first ven- 
tured to swallow such a curious object as an Oyster? 
