Well, I'm tellina, it musta been a guy with a lion's paw who
could crumple them enough to fit. I'm s'pecten it must have
taken him a long time, but accomplishing it was an arca his
strength. He acted like the cockle of the walk after that.
" What a cardita he is, what a chama-ic." said Mrs. Murphy.
She then took a picture with her Codakia camera.  With that she
ate the clam chowder, along with the lima beans. "Wait until I tell
my mom and papyridea about this" she said when she was finished. "Lucina,
the overalls  made it taste pretty good".

On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Art Weil wrote:

> The Question Man has stumbled upon what he believes to be the oldest,
> unanswered shell-related question:
>         Who put the overalls in Missus Murphy's CLAM chowder?
> Q-man
>