mussel-bed

We were waiting for the tide to fall, to go out to the mussel-bed.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

The village seemed peopled with women, sexless creatures for the most part, whom toil and the life on the mussel-bed or in the field had dried and hardened into mummy shapes.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

Our visit to the mussel-bed, as we soon found, had been our formal introduction to the village.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

She's sixty - five, if she's a minute; she's been working here, on this mussel-bed, for five years, to pay the mortgage off her farm; when that is done, her daughter Augustine can marry; Augustine's _dot_ is the farm. "

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

"Yes, last year's: she was my belle -- the belle of the mussel-bed for me, a year ago.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

"I'll make it a red picture," he continued, dipping his brushes into a little case of paints he held on his thumb; "the mussel-bed a reddish violet, the sky red in the horizon, and the girl in the foreground, with that torrent of hair as the high light.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

June fifteenth so eager to get to a mussel-bed that there will be no holding you! "

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918