Eggs

Refrigerator John knows that Primrose is saving money to buy paint. She is still 20 dollars short because she keeps buying food for herself and David with her weekly flea market earnings. Once the two calm down, John tells them about his plan to open a bait shop and says that he’ll need help catching bait. He offers to pay them various rates per worm, with the giant nightcrawlers being the prize at 25 cents each. He explains how big nightcrawlers are and how hard it is to catch them.

The following night, John takes the kids out into the field to show them how to hunt nightcrawlers. They will have to crawl on the ground themselves, and they can use only red flashlights, as regular lights would disturb the worms and cause them to escape. The nightcrawlers dig their tails into their holes when they come out so that they can pull themselves back in quickly. The kids will have to grab the worms and hold onto them until the worms tire themselves out with struggling. The best time to hunt nightcrawlers is after the rain.

Two days later, it rains.