They had spent the day picking lice off themselves. The ones they caught, they threw away, and the ones they missed came home with them.
On the island of Ios, Homer meets some boys coming back from fishing and asks if they caught anything. They answer: “All we caught, we left behind. All we didn’t catch, we’re carrying home.” What had they been catching?
Give me a hintThe hint
They caught no fish that day, and they kept scratching.