Whose lazy waters without motion lay,
While he, with eager force, urg'd his impetuous way."
W. Ewart.
University Club.
Slow-worm Superstition.—Could any of your correspondents kindly inform me whether there is any foundation for the superstition, that if a slow-worm be divided into two or more parts, those parts will continue to live till sunset (life I suppose to mean that tremulous motion which the divided parts, for some time after the cruel operation, continue to have), and whether it exists in any other country or county besides Sussex, in which county I first heard of it?
Tower.
Tangiers (Vol. vii., p. 12.).—I have not seen any opinion as to these Queries.
A. C.
Snail Gardens.—What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens?
C. M. T.