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reward of patient seeking — Hock Snail — Kounded Snail — 

 Stone-turning and leaf-sifting — Beautiful Snail— Prickly 

 Snail — A climber of trees and a parachutist — Plated Snail — 

 Cheese Snail — A relic of the ancient forests — Lapidary Snail 

 — Bristly Snail — Buddy Snail — A weakness for strawberries 

 — Silky Snail — Green Hairy Snail — Dusky Snail — Kentish 

 Snail — Carthusian Snail — Copse Snail — Knew the Avay to 

 the tap — Sandhill Snail — A probable alien — Banded Snail 

 — Snail - showers^The flavour of Down mutton — Sheep- 

 snails — Heath Snail — Wrinkled Snail — Theorising on a 

 false basis — Pointed Snail — BroAvn - lipped Snail — Its 

 wonderful variation — White-lipped Snail^Common Garden 

 Snail — Comes home to roost — Apple Snail or Boman Snail^ 

 A rei)iited alien, but more probable autochthon— Apples or 

 pot-lids — Its winter sleep — Its egg-laying— A chalky egg- 

 shell — The Apple-snail's hrst meal — The Good Samaritan 

 of Shell-life — Bulins — Molluscan Dirty Dicks — Chrysalis- 

 shells — Numerous but minute — Barred doors — Tree Snail 

 — Door-shells — Mimicry of beech-buds — How the ridges are 

 worn away — Slippery Moss-snail — Agate Snail — A Idind, 

 subterrranean ghoul — Amber Snails and more flukes — A 

 remarkable seashore slug ..... 343 



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The most highly-organised mollusks — Suckers and Ink- 

 bags — How colour-changes are effected — The Common 

 Octopus — The Curled Octopus — Eight-armed Cuttles and 

 ten-armed Cuttles — Spirula — Fragile shells that cross the 

 Atlantic - Common Cuttle — " Cuttle-bone " — Hectocotylus- 

 arm — Derivation of word Cuttle — Eggs in bunches — Pen- 

 and-ink mollusks — Little Cuttle — Boss' Cuttle — Common 

 Squid — First-class bait — ^How to catch a Squid — -Absence of 

 Squid "pens" on shore — Egg-mops — Marbled Squid — 

 Flying Squids — Architeuthis, a monstrous Squid — Oceanic 

 Cuttles— Evolution of the Cuttles' shells . . . 383 



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A Classifled List of British Mollusks . . .401 



Index to Poimlar Names ..... 413 



