Typo? Or genuinely misunderstood phrase?

[xylohypha]

Sometimes, it doesn't really matter, because it's just too funny. For example, Character A heads down the "well-worm trail."

...the pathway leading to the annelid Lourdes?

In less whimsical matters, I've finished re-reading the Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery. Hoo-boy, those last couple of entries in volume five are killers. Still, it was

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[semyaza]

I want to know more about the well-worms. The idea is full of possibilities. They must be related to Bram Stoker's White Worm.

I've begun to feel that knowing about LMM might be too much of a downer for me. We still don't know how to treat depression.

[xylohypha]

The well-worm trail could also be that smear of slime which climbs up (or down) the rope which holds the bucket so that it can be lowered to the water and then raised again. How else is a well-worm supposed to get out to see the world?

Yes, treatment for depression is still trial and error, hit or miss--but at least we have more options available than "tough it out" or sedative medications. The number of times she notes that she used, or that she had to dose her husband with barbiturates, chloral hydrate, or bromides is astounding. And none of those seemed to work very well at all.