pond-worms

Updated: July 28, 2025

Won't you take some worms?" The seller thrusts his coarse rough fingers into the pail and pulls out of it a soft minnow, or a little carp, the size of a nail. Fishing lines, hooks, and tackle are laid out near the pails, and pond-worms glow with a crimson light in the sun.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories