THE NOISY OYSTERS
How often have we hoard the expression “ as siicnt as an oyster!” Now a .survey ship which has been listening to underwater sound waves has come back with the startling news that when it was over an oyster bed it was impossible to hear anything except the noise made by the oysters opening and shutting their shells! That, apparently, is not the sort of noiso that annoys an oyster.
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Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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72THE NOISY OYSTERS Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 6
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