Chapter DII

[The snail scoops out hollows, little rotund chambers, in
limestone, for its residence. This habit of the animal is so
important in its effects, as to have attracted the attention
of geologists, and Dr. Buckland alluded to it at the meeting
of the British Association in 1841. See Chambers' 'Popular
Rhymes,' p. 43. The following rhyme is a boy's invocation to
the snail to come out of such holes.]

Snail, snail, come out of your hole,
Or else I will beat you as black as a coal.