I did think I'd be forehanded in callin', but mother's been dredful wakeful lately, and when daylight comes, it don't seem as if I had the ambition of a snail.

It sounds like castor-oil tastes, or a snail looks after you have put salt on him.

The child plays with cat and dog, he feeds the chickens, the horse and the donkey, he watches with the utmost interest caterpillar, snail and spider, but he does not want to be asked questions about themhe does want to talk and perhaps to ask the questions himselfnor does he always want even to draw, paint or model them.

For it is evident, on a moment's introspection, that thought makes language for itself to live in, just as a snail makes its own shell or a soul makes its own body.

* * Last May Day fair I searched to find a snail That might my secret lover's name reveal.

Upon a gooseberry-bush a snail I found, For always snails near sweetest fruit abound.

I seized the vermin, home I quickly sped, And on the hearth the milk-white embers spread: Slow crawled the snail, and, if I right can spell, In the soft ashes marked a curious L. Oh, may this wondrous omen lucky prove!

" "But you are sure?" "All we could get was a hansom drawn by a snail.

None of them could possibly have been described as "creeping like snail unwillingly to school."

" The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hillside's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn:

His descriptions seem disguised extracts from Polo, with ridiculous exaggerations and additions; as of snail shells so large as to hold many persons.

We went at a snail's pace, and got in at four o'clock, and then there was tea at half-past, with the nicest bread-and-butter you ever tasted.

But Tug had also been set to thinking by the snail-like Kingston firemen.

Like house-encumber'd snail we creep; While far ahead the women keep, For when to the devil's house we speed, By a thousand steps they take the lead.

Seest thou yonder snail?

For this purpose the Snail is the natural remedy, being the ready scavenger of all such nuisances.

To this objection some other varieties of snail are not open.

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

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.

He was very eager to have it and will do well I'm surebut certainly also the dogs will not pull heavy loads500 pounds proved a back-breaking load for 11 dogs to-daythey brought it at a snail's pace.

Think what a comparatively short distance meant then, with snail-paced precarious mails, and the only means of communication horses by land, and sailing ships by sea.

It is a snail that advances upright as a tower, upon crab claws, yet having as a crown the long hair of a sea-anemone.

The necessity for defending himself makes him seek a snail shell in order to protect the weak part of his organism.

LATHROP, DOROTHY P. The snail who ran.

Through the leafy pathway she rode at a snail's pace, brushing the low-hanging leaves and twigs from about her head with something akin to petulance.