Outside it was still light, and the starlings and blackbirds and thrushes were finishing their supper, picking up the unwary worms and the tardy little snails, and making a good deal of sweet noise about it.

Any live snail will out-travel a wrecked locomotive, and besides will leave no trail of slaughter on its track.

And this one fact, so simple, yet so grand, was just this:That a male and female snail, having been once, by contact, put in communication with one another, so as to become what magnetizers call en rapport the one with the other, continue ever after to sympathize, no matter what space may divide them.

The frugal snail, with fore-cast of repose, Carries his house with him, where'er he goes; Peeps outand if there comes a shower of rain, Retreats to his small domicile amain.

[Footnote 195: The edible snail, helix pomatia, L., is still an article of commerce in France and Italy.

Down, down, down, down to the very lowest! reported my faithful snails.

At his end of our line the brave John Meavy waits before two similar boxes, in each compartment of which is a female snail.

And that fragile roseate snail, struggling unaided to silver over a whole fagot, I honour!

The former is a handsome snail, with a bronze-tinted, globular shell; the latter has a spiral form.

After the outbreak of 'liver-rot,' above referred to, the ground landlord, a Mr. John Bellingham, instructed his solicitor to insert a clause in the lease of the beds directing that the latter should be periodically cleared and examined by an expert to make sure that they were free from the noxious water-snails.

The further off from England the nearer is to France Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,a dweller in caves, or on trees, like an ape, a cannibal, an eater of pounded snails, worms, and offal,a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.

One man told how his parents went to eat raw snails in the fields.

It sometimes happens that an ill-advised slug or ignorant snail chooses to enter the hive, and has even the audacity to walk over the comb; the presumptuous and foul intruder is quickly killed, but its gigantic carcass is not so speedily removed.

Monsieur, when I looked through the glass lids into the boxes, there lay my snails, stiff and dead!

Outside it was still light, and the starlings and blackbirds and thrushes were finishing their supper, picking up the unwary worms and the tardy little snails, and making a good deal of sweet noise about it.

All the while, Ozma had been using her wand to turn the Sharks into tiny snails, which Cubby picked up and put into a nearby pond.

A fine banded snail, Helix incei, was the only landshell met with.

"Spring, ye snails!

The further off from England the nearer is to France Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Every day Martin ran down to the stream to gather flowers and shells; for many curious water-snails were found there with brown purple-striped shells; and he also liked to watch the small birds that build their nests in the rushes.

To dresse snails.