Babies - Children - Multiple Births
Mar. 27 Cockle Kids: In Katagai They Dig'Em Out with Their Toes: In the Japanese fishing village of Katagi, in Chiab Province not far from Tokyo, the school children spend their holidays and after school hours on the beaches - searching for cockles with their toes! Younger brothers and sisters are carried on their as the young cocklers dig and prie in the soft sand with their almost prehensile toes. The children sell their clothes to anyone wheo will buy them for a fe yen. Further out, their parents wearing waterproof leggings use rakes to drag the and below water, to dislodge the shellfish, which are then put intoire baskets. This cocking fishing by the children has been going on for as long as anyone can remember. A young cockler with her baby brother strapped to her back. Mother may well be out in deeper water fishing herself; thus it is deemed safer for the sister to have the baby
