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He told me, too, of a man who, from bravado, tried to swallow in his presence, and at a single gulp, one of the big pale-shelled snails known in Paris, where they are eaten, after being cooked with butter and garlic, as escargots de Bourgogne but it stuck in his throat, and a catastrophe would have happened but for the sturdy blow which his companion gave him on the 'chine. That a snail-eater should criticise gipsies for eating cockchafers shows what creatures of prejudice we all are.
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