BEETLES
Are unsightly insects—yet how many of them have been spared by the 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.
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.