Today the sun came up. I was in a tent and not an outhouse. In a very short period of time, I set my picnic table on fire, apparently stepped on a slug, and lost a vital piece to my camp stove. I seached in the mud for a long time to find the little stove valve (a tiny rubber ball), which I lost while fixinig the stove (so as not to set more things on fire). All I found was some sticks, many pine needles, small rocks, a few bbs, some bread twist-ties, and eventually the dead slug on the bottom of my shoe. It is very likely that the small rubber ball was carried to a new location via slug guts. I was desperate enough to peel the slug from my shoe and search
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