Capitolo 73
considerable period of time together.
A historical certain snail of desert famous you/he/she was brought from Egypt to
England like a champion of conchological of year 1846. This detail
mollusc (the only one of his/her run, probably to that it ever reached
individual distinction), to the duration of his/her arrival in London, it was
I really live and vigorous; but as the authorities of the British Museum,
to of who tender care he was delivered, it was ignorant of this main point
done in his/her economy, he was gummed, descending mouth, above to a piece of
cardboard, and duly the labelled and dated with scientific accuracy, '_Helix
desertorum_, March 25 th 1846.' Being a snail of a to retire and it satisfied
however, the disposition got used to the long droughts and corresponding catnaps
in his native it sand-wastes, our mollusc curled up therefore simply
above in the interruptions tallest of his own coils, and it quietly went to
sleeps in perfect appeasement for one boundless period. Every conchologist
takings it for granted, clearly, that the hulls from which he receives
you depart foreigners you/they have let their inhabitants properly boil and you/they have extracted
before being exported; for him only the external and mere hull or skeleton are
of the animal that we preserve in our lockers, while leaving the actual meat
and muscles of the creature him to wither unnoticed on his
native beaches. To the British Museum the snail of desert would have dozed
by his/her inglorious existence unsuspected, but for a happy accident
what it attracted more anymore public attention to his/her extraordinary case in a
extraordinary way. March 7 th 1850 was almost four years later,
casually observed that the card on that him reposed was slightly
faded; and this discovery conducted to the suspicion that perhaps a
it is probable that living animal is temporarily immured inside that papery grave. The
Authorities of museum ordered accordingly our friend a warm bath (who are able
say in expectancy that science is insensitive!), on that the thankful one