The collectors of these molluscan dainties knew them as quahaugs, and esteemed them accordingly; but my companion, a connoisseur in such matters, pronounced them not the true quahaug (_Venus mercenaria_,--what a profanely ill-sorted name, even for a bivalve.) [Please select]
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"We _call_ them quahaugs," he answered, with an accent of polite deprecation, as if it were not in the least to be wondered at that he should be found in the wrong. [Please select]
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