recollection of Shakspeare's beautiful lines--

--The poor beetle, that we tread upon.
In corporal suffering finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.

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SNAILS.


Snails, though in England they cannot be mentioned as an article of food
without exciting disgust, are esteemed in many places abroad a delicacy
even for the tables of the great. In Paris they are sold in the market;
they are much esteemed in Italy, and are of so much consequence in
Venice that they are attended and fattened with as much care as poultry
are in England.

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THE BITER BIT.


Zeno, the philosopher, believed in an inevitable destiny, and
acknowledged but one God. His servant availed himself of this doctrine
one day while being beaten for a theft, by exclaiming, "Was I not
destined to rob?" "Yes," replied Zeno, "and to be corrected also."