_Snail-eating._--The practice of _eating_, if not of talking to, snails,
seems not to be so unknown in this country as some of your readers might
imagine. I was just now interrogating a village child in reference to the
addresses to snails quoted under the head of "FOLK LORE," Vol. iii., pp.
132. and 179., when she acquainted me with the not very appetising fact,
that she and her brothers and sisters had been in the constant habit of
indulging this horrible _Limacotrophy_.
"We hooks them out of the wall (she says) with a stick, in winter time,
and not in summer time (so it seems they have their seasons); and we
roasts them, and, when they've done spitting, they be a-done; and we
takes them out with a fork, and eats them. Sometimes we has a jug
heaped up, pretty near my pinafore-full. I loves them dearly."
Surely this little bit of practical cottage economy is worth recording.