22 FRIENDS WORTH KNOWING. 
often causes immense devastation, 
particularly in England, where the 
great gray slugs will ruin a garden 
in one night, if the gardener is not 
daily on the watch. Our own straw- 
berries sometimes suffer, but a bor- 
der of sawdust, sand, or ashes around 
the bed is an adequate protection in 
dry weather. In trying to cross it, 
the marauders become so entangled 
in the particles adhering to their 
slimy bodies that they exhaust them- 
selves in the attempt to get free. 
They also are very fond of fungi, 
including many poisonous kinds. 
At the first hint of frost our snail 
feels the approach of a resistless las- 
situde, and, creeping under some 
mouldering log, or half-buried bowl- 
der, it attaches itself, aperture up- 
ward, by exuding a little glue, and 
settles itself for a season of hiber- 
nating sleep. . Withdrawing into the 
shell, the animal throws across the 
