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But as we have been speaking so much of sea-creatures, I think we will now leave the oysters, cockles, mussels, and razor-fish, and choose the familiar garden-snail as our specimen of the Mollusca, or Soft-bodied Family. I fancy you need no introduction to that snug little householder.
"But I've the best voice," said the tiger-shell; it is called tiger-shell because it looks like a panther. "Oh! tut, tut!" said the common garden-snail, "I'm more in demand than any other snail in the world; you'll find me all over the flower-beds in the summer, and in the winter I lie in the wood-shed in a cabbage tub. They call me uninteresting, but they can't do without me."
What is it?" "A fancy piece," he returned. "That's what pleased me. So few of the fellows in our time had the imagination of a garden-snail." "Madden, you say his name is?" I pursued. "Madden," he repeated. "Has he travelled much?" I inquired. "I haven't an idea. He is one of the least autobiographical of men.
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