Snail
the common name of gasteropodous mollusks comprising the numeron vegetable substances. The mischief ous family Helicidæ. They feed chiefly which they do to garden crops is too well weather, their chief time known. Snails delight in warm, moist of activity is during the night, and they weather; in dry we hide themselves by day; but after rain they come forth at any hour in quest of food. At the approach of winter or in very dry weather they close the mouth of formed by the drying of the mucous substance which they secrete, and become instance which they secrete, and become increvices for the winter, or into holes which they made in the earth, and which are agglutinated by secreted mucus. roofed over with earth, dead leaves, etc., agglutinated by secreted mucus. The pomatia), a European species, was considered by the ancient Romans one of sidered by the ancient Romans one of are cultivated for the table. as Switzerland and parts of France, they The SNAITH