The Land-Painting Plague

Ruth, you ought to ask Doc Mallon to drop in on Leonard Kellogg sometime, and give him an obtrusive going over. It's trouble just being around that character. He drank some more of his cocktail, and helped himself to one of her cigarettes. The limiting factor on land-prones increase is the weather. If there's been a lot of rain, most of them drown in their holes or as soon as they emerge. They eggs hatch underground, and the immature prawns dig their way out in the spring.