The breed of large white snails is to be found all along the escarpment of the chalk range, and is {129} not confined to Surrey.
The snails were brought thither for the Countess of Arundel, who was accustomed to dress and eat them for a consumptive complaint.
RILEY is informed that the breed of white snails he refers to is to be plentifully found in the neighbourhood of Shere.
When aquaria first came into favour such things as snails and weeds were excluded as eyesores and injurious.
Pond-snails can be readily found clinging to submerged stems, leaves, or pieces of wood in almost any pond.
These pond-snails belong to a different order of molluscs, and live on the bottom of the pond, crawling about in the soft mud and feeding on animal instead of vegetable food.
The shells of the various kinds of snails vary much.
The pulmonate pond- and land-snails and slugs are vegetable feeders and where they occur in large numbers do much injury to vegetation.
The adult water-scavenger beetle feeds chiefly on decaying vegetation in the water, but instances of the taking of other insects and of snails have been noted.
Observe the habits of these livesnails in the school aquarium.
In many of the land-snails the spiral is not spire-shaped or conical, but is flat.
Most snails which live in the water, as the pond-snails and the river-snails, have to come occasionally to the surface to breathe.
Perhaps one-half of all the known species of molluscs aresnails and slugs (fig.
No depths of the ocean abysses are too great for the octopi, no coast but has its many shells, hardly a pond or stream is without its mussels and pond-snails, and in all regions the land-snails and slugs abound.
On one occasion our allied friends received a consignment of live snails from France, which they proceeded to cook with garlic on a small spirit stove in our room.
The odour of snails hung about for days afterwards.
The bird or other creature that feeds on the large black snail of Britain, if such there be, need never go hungry, for I saw these snails even on the tops of mountains.
Then I took one of those large, black, shelless snails with which this land abounds, a snail the size of my thumb, and dropped it upon the nest.
To prevent snails crawling up walls or fruit trees daub the ground with a thick paste of soot and train oil.
And other snails there be that be full great but not so huge as the other.
There be also in that country a kind of snails that be so great, that many persons may lodge them in their shells, as men would do in a little house.
In early spring one may gather pond snails from any country stream and place them in an aquarium.
A few insects make their appearance and a few thousand-leggers are running around among the lowly plants; a few spider-like animals have arisen; there are a few snails that have left the water and taken to the land.
The remaining land-life of the Coal-forest is confined to worm-like organisms whose remains are not preserved, and land-snails which do not call for further discussion.
Not only frogs but alsosnails are to be seen exhibited for sale in some of the Paris markets.
It may be that in the days when the unhappy French peasantry were on the verge of starvation they found themselves reduced to a disgusting diet of snails and even slugs.
She was good to all the wounded fishes who got hurt by the many enemies that haunt the great ocean, and tried to teach the cruel sharks, the ugly octopus, and the lazy snails to be kinder and more industrious.
When I was a youth I took a dozen snails every morning to a lady who was of a delicate constitution, and to whom they were recommended as wholesome food.
A friend of mine, in walking round his garden, was in the habit of picking the snails off his fruit-trees and eating them raw.
Ten thousand snails can be raised on a plot of land one hundred by two hundred feet.
The snail park is made by inclosing a plot of damp, limy soil with smooth boards coated with tar to prevent the snails climbing out, and held in place by outside stakes strong enough to withstand the wind.
The ground is plowed deeply in the spring, the snails are placed on it and covered with from two to four inches of moss or straw which is kept damp.
When the fast has been sufficiently prolonged, the shells are brushed up and the snails cooked in salt water in a great pot holding about ten thousand.
The boards must penetrate the soil to the depth of eight inches at least, and at a level with the ground they must have a sort of shelf to prevent the snails from burrowing under them.
An industry which is practically unknown in this country, but which flourishes in Burgundy, France, is the raising of snails for food.
In October, the snails having become fat through the summer, retire into their shells, the mouths of which they close with a thin gelatinous covering.
Snails are sed tew be delikate eating, but if i kan hav all the hash i want, i will try and struggle along without any snail.
Ignorance iz sed tew be bliss, and i hav often thought that it waz, and if i don't never kno how snails taste, i don't think now i shall repent ov it.
In a highly ornamental tank, water-snails may be thought objectionable, as interfering somewhat with the beauty of the scene.
We see them busy at the bottom, adding fragments of weed, pebbles, minute shells, even if the snails within them are alive, and any small debris that their fingers can seize hold of.
The winkles accomplish for the marine-tank what the fresh-water snails do for the river-tank, they scrape confervoid growths from the glass, and so help to preserve the crystalline aspect of the tank.
Water trees lately planted, and pick up snails and vermin.
Water the trees newly planted, keep the borders about the old ones clear, and pick off the snails and other vermin.
Sow a few beans and peas, and seek and destroysnails and other vermin.
In the winter time the snails may be found in the holes of walls, under thorns, behind old trees or close hedges, and might be taken and destroyed.
The pretty snails called cyclostomas, which have a lid to their shells, are well known to survive imprisonments of many months; but in the ordinary open-mouthed land-snails such cases are even more remarkable.
The big pond snails of the tropics have been found alive in logs of mahogany imported from Honduras; and M.
Freshwater snails and mussels, in cold weather, bury themselves in the mud of ponds or rivers; and land-snails hide themselves in the ground or under moss and leaves.
My experience has been, however, that a great many snails go to sleep in this way, and never wake up again.
Several of the enormous tropical snails often used to decorate cottage mantelpieces, brought by Lieutenant Greaves from Valparaiso, revived after being packed, some for thirteen, others for twenty months.
Impatience had made us early, and we drove some little distance before espying the cab, which toiled uphill at much the same pace as the black snails crawled by the roadside.
The biggest of the cubs, who liked snails and cockroaches, looked under every piece of dead wood he came to and overturned the piles of dead leaves.
He must hunt around woodpiles and under trunks of rotting trees, where there are always plenty of snails and cockroaches.
She tied up a little lacquered box full of boiled rice and snails for his journey, wrapped it round with a silk napkin, and putting his extra clothes in a bundle, swung it on his back.
These are the snailsthat kindly coiled themselves on Buddha's head when by thinking too much in the hot sun he might have been sun-struck.
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