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"Its a wery remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together."
Oysters... I shall never forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, h — Oysters
"... I shall never forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature."
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Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters, are in the superfamily Ostreoidea.
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