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... snails . Those large white snails of which the grand folks used , in olden time , to make fricassees , dined off burdock - leaves , and greedily ate them , saying all the while , ' Hum , how nice , how exquisite ! ' They thought the ...
... snails . Those large white snails of which the grand folks used , in olden time , to make fricassees , dined off burdock - leaves , and greedily ate them , saying all the while , ' Hum , how nice , how exquisite ! ' They thought the ...
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... snail , since he could not see it as she did , to touch the little snail's house and feel it . And old father snail felt the house , and acknowledged that the mother was in the right . One day there came a heavy shower of rain . ' Only ...
... snail , since he could not see it as she did , to touch the little snail's house and feel it . And old father snail felt the house , and acknowledged that the mother was in the right . One day there came a heavy shower of rain . ' Only ...
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... snails crept back into their houses , and never came out again ; there they slept . And the young snails reigned in the burdock - wood in their stead , and had ... snail family were very happy . MOTHER ELDER On nce there was a little boy who.
... snails crept back into their houses , and never came out again ; there they slept . And the young snails reigned in the burdock - wood in their stead , and had ... snail family were very happy . MOTHER ELDER On nce there was a little boy who.
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