Word: limpet
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...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
...strong tide of super-taxation in the British Isles has long been breaking up the great estates and driving limpet peers to incorporate them selves. Last week the Earl of Derby (Darbi) sold large property holdings in Liverpool and nearby Bootle and in Kirkdale and Walton to one Philip E. Hill, London financier, for about $8,500,000. The Earl, however, still retains his famed country seat at Knowlsey, also nearby...