One day, when our family was on vacation at the seashore,we decided to take a walk. We came upon a little openair stand called “The Oyster Shop.” Inside, a lady stood with a big bucket of oysters. She said that each oyster had a pearl and for five dollars the children could choose one. She would open it for them, and whatever was inside
would be theirs. Next, she began a slide presentation and explained the story of how a pearl develops.
The woman told us that, at some time in the course of the oyster’s development, a foreign substance such as a
grain of sand gets into the little muscle and irritates the oyster. In response, the oyster covers that irritant with
a secretion. The longer the irritation is there, the more the oyster coats it. Pearl oysters vary in size and can be
quite rough and ugly. Yet what is happening inside is a combination of rainbows, moonlight and bits of flame.
Once the oyster accepts the irritation as part of itself, the pearl begins to develop. The worst storms, gales, even hurricanes will not dislodge it. As time goes by and this oyster is finally pulled up from the bed where it has been for many years, it is opened only to reveal a beautiful pearl.
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