1881,] Intelligence in a Snail, 977 
The lady, after stating that her sister Georgie was, from the 
age of three years, quite an invalid and remarkable for her power 
of putting herself ex rapport with all living things, continues: 
“Before she could say more than a few words, she had formed 
an acquaintance with a toad, which used to come from behind the 
log where it lived, and sit winking before her in answer to her 
call, and waddle back when she grew tired and told it to go 
away. When she was between five and six years of age, I found 
a snail shell, as I thought, which I gave her to amuse her, on my 
return from a picnic, The snail soon crawled out, to her delight, 
and after night disappeared, causing great lamentation. A large, 
old-fashioned sofa in the front hall was moved in a day or two, 
and on it we found the snail glued fast; it had crawled down 
stairs. I took a plant jar of violets and placing the snail in it 
Carried it to her, and sunk a small toy cup even with the soil, fill- 
ing it with meal. This was because I had read that French peo- 
ple feed snails on meal. The creature soon found it, and we ob- 
served it with interest for awhile, as we found it had a mouth 
which looked pink inside and appeared to us to have tiny teeth 
also. We grew tired of it, but Georgie’s interest never flagged, 
and she surprised me one day by telling us that her snail knew 
her and would come to her when she talked to it, but would 
withdraw into its shell if any one else spoke. This was really so, 
as I saw her prove to one and another, time after time. At one 
time she found a number of eggs. To the best of my recollec- 
tion they resembled mistletoe berries, though much whiter. They 
hatched, and she had fifteen or twenty little snails which used to — 
assemble round the cup of meal which had to be frequently 
teplenished. The old snail once fell down on toa brick pave- 
ment and its shell was fractured and a small piece lost, but Geor- 
gie pasted a piece of calico over the hole and it seemed to do — 
very well, What became of the happy family I do not remem- 
ber, nor can I tell how long my sister had them. I do not know 
of any more easily kept pet. If there is anything else which I 
have forgotten, I shall be happy to write further particulars if I 
Can recollect them.” : , . : 
“ Georgie,” my correspondent adds, “d 
An observer, who noticed and remembered the pink buccal 
mass, the lingu 1 teeth and the translucent mistletoe-ber like | 
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