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We have all known him well from boyhood by several names—angleworm, fishworm, earthworm.

"What you got last night, sonny, was for your own sake, but this time it's going to be for Frances'—you fishworm!"

They are the earthworms, also called fishworms, which are distributed all over the world.

"I never thought to ask him about Minervy," occurred to her while she was relentlessly dragging pale, fleshly fishworms from the loose black soil of Marthy's onion bed.

There he was talking away to us fishworms just as cordially as if he enjoyed it.