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Earthworms come in some 2,200 varieties, ranging in size from the one-inch species that inhabit old logs to the seven-foot Gippsland giant of Australia. Some affect bright colors, including purple, blue and green. Regeneration of lost tails-and sometimes heads-is only one of the worm's accomplishments. A hermaphrodite, the earthworm carries both male & female reproductive organs in its many-segmented body. But two worms normally cross-fertilize each other; experts doubt that a single worm ever acts as both father & mother of its own eggs...
Entree. In Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Botany Professor Lawrence M. Rohrbaugh had a suggestion for finicky fruit eaters: throw away the apple and eat the worm; it is more nourishing...
...merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...
Specialization. In Los Angeles, closed-shop contract demands were being made by the Flea, Tadpole, Worm, Cockroach, Rodent and Bird Trainers' Local of the Trainers and Handlers Union (A.F.L...
...executed on linoleum for Granny Queen's Christmas, were painstaking and thorough. Very different were Sister Margaret's drawings of an imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret. "Wherever did you learn such slang?" King George once asked his younger daughter. "Oh," said Margaret, "at my mother's knee-or some such low joint...