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Updated: June 6, 2025
Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large. The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
My latest recollection of San Sebastian is of a hawk, which we brought home to our house from the Castillo. Some soldiers gave us the hawk when it was still very young, and it grew up and became accustomed to living indoors. We fed it snails, which it gulped down as if they were bonbons.
Kennedy's barometrical observations, upwards of two thousand feet above the level of the sea. We also discovered a great many snails, with very large shells of a greyish colour. One I found on the bushes with an operculum this I gave to Wall. August 10. This morning we took the sheep and horses to a spot in the river where the current was not so strong, and drove them across.
Surely snails do not belong to the game which your high mightinesses consider that you alone have a right to follow! Now, on the other hand, I know how to prepare from them an excellent high-flavoured drink; and I have taken enough for to-day: marvellous fat little beasts, with wise faces like a man's, and long twisted horns on their heads. Would you like to see them? Look here!"
And just opposite to the place where I furnished your dear mother's nest, is a small plantation of burdocks, on the underside of which stick the best flavoured snails I am acquainted with, in such inexhaustible quantities, that a hedgehog might have fourteen children in a season, and not fear their coming short of provisions.
Three or four monks keep what used to be the prison there; but they are strays from unknown orders, and live by herding a few starving goats and cultivating snails for the market." "Have you been on either of them recently?" "Yes, on Plati." "When?" "Within the year." "Well, you excite my curiosity.
Far from being shy and retiring in her disposition, the brown owl, directly night steals over the woodlands, is so fearless that probably no animal smaller than the hare can in safety roam abroad. As the owl flew slowly past the fence, she heard the faint sound of a crackling shell the hedgehogs were feeding on snails.
And of these snails, and of great white worms that have black heads that be as great as a man's thigh, and some less as great worms that men find there in woods, men make viand royal for the king and for other great lords.
'What do you think Archie brought home today, she said to change the subject, 'in his Noah's Ark? Two snails! She laughed. 'Revolting! I don't know where he gets his tastes from. Not from my family, that I'm quite sure. He yawned ostentatiously. 'I think I shall have a rest, Bruce said presently. 'I had a very bad night last night. I scarcely slept at all. 'Poor boy! Edith said kindly.
"It's very comfortable in here," said the Crab, "and the tide is very favorable this morning; it brought me in some fine fat snails for breakfast. By the way, have you had breakfast?" And as he spoke he again retreated into the mud. "Oh, yes, indeed!" replied Sammy, politely, "I had a good meal some time ago before the shark got after me."
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