Turning the Worm.

But when too many worms turn simultaneously in the precincts of the paspalum they are liable to make a lawn's sylph-like skin look like an air view of the Tibetian border. The only way to take the wind out of the worm's spinaker is to creep out and turn the lawn over while it is asleep, thus confusing the worm's ups-and-downs so that, when it thinks it is coming up it is really going down; the worm thereafter keeps on going until it strikes rock-bottom and dies of shingles or gravel rash. This rids the lawn of worms until the next annual migration arrives from Wormwood Scrubs.