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ANIMAL CURIOSITIES 
ness during his youth ; particulars of which 
appeared in the pages of the Observer , as 
follows : 
“ Wash a peck of garden snails in beer, 
put them in an oven, and let them stay there 
till they have done crying; then prick the 
green from them with a fork, and beat them, 
shells and all, in a stone mortar. Take a quart 
of green earthworms, slice them through the 
middle, and stew them with salt; then wash 
and beat them, and place them in a pot in a 
still, with two handfuls of angelica, a quart of 
rosemary flowers, two handfuls each of agrimony, 
bear’s-foot, red dock roots, barbery brake, 
biloney, wormwood, one handful of rue-tumeric, 
and one ounce of saffron.” 
The dose of this mixture was two table¬ 
spoonfuls at a time. 
Before closing our remarks upon the typical 
snails, it may be of interest to mention a small 
species found in the Sandwich Islands that has 
the peculiar power of being able to emit 
musical sounds which have been likened by 
one writer to those produced by 44 hundreds of 
iEolian harps.” Although it is not definitely 
known how these sounds are caused, it is 
generally assumed that the creature produces 
them by rubbing its shell against the bark of 
trees. 
