In other respects the whole went off very quietly, for the old folks could not bear noise and merriment; but old Dame Snail made a brilliant speech.
The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
Now, there was an old manor-house, where they no longer ate snails, they were quite extinct; but the burdocks were not extinct, they grew and grew all over the walks and all the beds; they could not get the mastery over them--it was a whole forest of burdocks.
The old white snails were the first persons of distinction in the world, that they knew; the forest was planted for their sake, and the manor-house was there that they might be boiled and laid on a silver dish.
"Black snails, I dare say, there are enough of," said the old one.
The investigations carried out to determine the long term effects of Costus afer leaf methanol extract,
snail slime and the combined Costus afer and
snail slime extracts on blood glucose levels of alloxan-induced diabetic Swiss albino rats were done at the University of Jos.
The current record for the smallest
snail was set in Guangxi, China, where the Angustopila dominikae, which grows to a maximum of only .86 mm, had been found.