Nursery Rhyme. DII. Natural History.

        [The snail scoops out hollows, little rotund chambers, in limestone, for its residence. This habit of the animal is so important in its effects, as to have attracted the attention of geologists, and Dr. Buckland alluded to it at the meeting of the British Association in 1841. See Chambers' 'Popular Rhymes,' p. 43. The following rhyme is a boy's invocation to the snail to come out of such holes.]

    Snail, snail, come out of your hole,
    Or else I will beat you as black as a coal.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXVI. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXX. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXXVIII. Charms.

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Nursery Rhyme. DIII. Natural History.

        Sneel, snaul,
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