'I know I ain't a tub of wisdom,' said Noah Poole, too old now to do anything but grub for piss clams in summer.

Alongshore the soft clam is the only clam used for fritters; the tough, long-keeping quahog is shipped to the less-enlightened "city trade."

Purchase a dozen large soft clams in the shell and three dozen opened clams.

They found Bob Trent there, loading up his wagon with soft clams, which he had just dug.

"We've been living on soft clams lately, and I have to go out quite a way to dig them."

How in the name of a soft-shell clam--

Soft-shell clams gape when they are alive.

Rhode Island has been successful in cultivating soft-shell clams and in increasing the area of its clam beds.

Put the required number of small, soft-shell clams into a saucepan, and bring to a boil, in their own liquor.

It simply meant that, the Oyster Months being past, the "human body" begins to be nourished with soft-shell clams.