Fun with Molluscs – cartoons, stories, poems and quotations

Cartoons about slugs

'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail,
'There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.'
(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865)

These pages take a light-hearted look at molluscs and include rhymes, poetry, quotations, anecdotes and cartoons connected with molluscs.
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Cartoons about snails

How ingenious an animal is a snail. When it encounters a bad neighbour it takes up its house and moves away.
Philemon, Fragment. (c. 300 B.C.)