The last two surviving
white snails were living happily among the large burdock-leaves, in a
garden were the people who used to make them into fricassees, had died out. The garden had not been attended for, and the burdocks had grown into quite a forest. They did not knew how old they were, but they knew they were descended from a family which came from foreign lands. They could also remember when there was many more of them. The two white snails had no children of their own, so they adopted a
little common snail, and
brought him up as their own child. They intended to find a wife for him, and the gnats told them about a little
Snail with a house, who was sitting quite alone, on a gooseberry-bush. They brought the little lady-snail to him, and a wedding was performed. The old snails crept into their houses, and slept. The young snails became the whole burdock forest as an inheritance, they got many children, and the hole family were very happy.
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