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earthworm
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earthworm
the common oligochete worm of the genera Lumbricus, Allobophora, Eisenia etc.; they act as intermediate hosts for a number of internal parasites of livestock, and are reputed to bring anthrax spores to the surface and precipitate an outbreak of the disease.


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After all they will be kidnapped by the mysterious night crawlers, who find in kidnapping an art that can be perfected to drive the relatives of the kidnapped into madness, because the Government is not really looking hard enough for them or even cares about finding them.
Trout fishing was fair-to-good using spinners, wooly buggers, salmon eggs and night crawlers.
Lilly then decides to catch night crawlers and sell them to the people who go fishing on Sundays after church.
 
 
 
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