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The area of mud the clammer is working on is smooth and even, covered with a scattering of broken shells and rocks that are covered in barnacles and seaweed. The mud itself is a greenish-brown. The flat is outlined by a distant tree cover and ring of snow. The clammer’s hod is made of lightly-colored wood. The clammer, wearing blue rubber gloves, is using a 5-tine rake to dig. He jerks the rake back and forth a few times before flipping the mud, and then sinks the rake into the same spot to dig deeper. The mud is black in color underneath its greenish flesh with a dusting of white specks. The surface of the mud seems to crackle as it strains under the pressure of the clammer’s rake, then is thrown back with haste. The mud beneath the surface resembles coal, often clumping in rock-like chunks. The clammer continues his pattern of digging an initial spot (often connected to the previous spot), sometimes digging further down, and picking around with his fingers before he moves to the next spot. As this continues, instead of moving his body to the right, he holds the rake sideways in his hand, the tine-end in his left hand in the handle in his right. He digs sideways so the rake is horizontal to his body. He intermittently finds clams which he places in his hod.

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