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> On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 3:50:05 AM UTC-8, Ophelia wrote:
>> > wrote in message
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>> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:51:46 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > > wrote:
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>> >>"sf" > wrote in message
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>> >>> Use cockles.
>> >>
>> >>I don't see cockles any more either.
>> >
>> > What's happened to them ? I loooved cockles.
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>> I haven't seen any since I was a child. Not sure which they were, but my
>> friends and I used to go out on Saturday morning and on the way home, we
>> always called at a fresh fish shop and got a packet of shellfish with a
>> pin
>> and we used to eat them on the way home
>>
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> So now I wonder what sweet Molly Malone sings as she wheels her wheel
> barrow through the streets broad and narrow. Maybe a US import?
> "Singing quahogs*, and mussels, alive-alive-oh"
> *pronounced "cow-hawks"

I am afraid she is long gone

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