Yes, said the dame. I would willingly go to the manorhouse, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!
The manor-house has most likely fallen to ruin! said Father Snail. Or the burdocks have grown up over it, so that they cannot come out. There need not, however, be any haste about that; but you are always in such a tremendous hurry, and the little one is beginning to be the same. Has he not been creeping up that stalk these three days? It gives me a headache when I look up to him!
You must not scold him, said Mother Snail. He creeps so carefully; he will afford us much pleasureand we have nothing but him to live for! But have you not thought of it? Where shall we get a wife for him? Do you not think that there are some of our species at a great distance in the interior of the burdock forest?
Black snails, I dare say, there are enough of, said the old one. Black snails without a housebut they are so common, and so conceited. But we might give the ants a commission to look out for us; they run to and fro as if they had something to do, and they certainly know of a wife for our little snail!
I know one, sure enoughthe most charming one! said one of the ants. But I am afraid we shall hardly succeed, for she is a queen!
That is nothing! said the old folks. Has she a house?
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