Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 378
gof wing and stout of heart and keen of witenough to find the way back. But did everanybody hear of a snail or a slug who was brightas that ? We talk about the snails carryinghis house on his back, and never dream thathe cares at all where he sets it down; and, foraught I know, neither does he… … THE LIMPET ON A ROCK. some big and hungry body comes along, hepulls his shell close down over him and clingsso fast to the rock that sticking like a limpet has passed into a proverb. If the rock on whichhe lives is soft limestone, the juices of his bodygradually dissolve it away and make a little…
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