flats-mud

Updated: May 12, 2025

"Now show me the clam's nest!" Melvina demanded, as out of breath and thoroughly drenched the two girls stood laughing at each other. "All right," Anna responded promptly. "Come on down to the point," and followed by Melvina, now apparently careless of the rough beach, she ran along the shore toward a clam bed in the dark mud. "Look!" she exclaimed, pointing to the black flats-mud.

Alice Turner Curtis - A Little Maid of Old Maine