There were bloodsuckers living below the river’s surface on the grass blades and on the dam wall bordering my grandparent’s home in Oxford Mills, Ontario.
The best way to get rid of bloodsuckers, if they get on you, is to pour salt on them. This makes them shrivel up and die.
Karen, my oldest sister, got three bloodsuckers on her leg once. We ran screaming from the river, through back garden and into the kitchen. Karen wouldn’t stand still, so Kim and I could only throw salt in the direction she was running. She was doing a drunken Twirling Dervish dance. Grandma was pretty upset when she came into the kitchen later and found salt scattered all over her kitchen floor. We had emptied the salt out of every one of her saltshakers.
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