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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 



