rock-mussel

Updated: May 4, 2025

And ain't that a crab, Hoo-Hoo? Ain't that a crab? My, my, you boys are good to your old grandsire." Hoo-Hoo, who was apparently of the same age as Edwin, grinned. "All you want, Granser. I got four." The old man's palsied eagerness was pitiful. Sitting down in the sand as quickly as his stiff limbs would let him, he poked a large rock-mussel from out of the coals.

Jack London - The Scarlet Plague