The Snail Collection
I kept a series of odd
"pets" in the years before we acquired
Gigi. The hamsters
were around by the time I arrived, and for a time we kept an undomesticated rabbit.
I even remember that caiman.
A neighborhood kid
gave me some snails when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. The snails
multiplied rapidly. I housed the snails in jars lined up on the Rec Room bookshelves.
When my fifth-grade teacher—an interesting woman from Argentina—crafted a
"science-fair" assignment, I used the snail collection as the
inspiration for my project.
Suburban Chicago, April 1969. Check out the snail "Nursery."
1 comment:
Very resourceful.
When it came time to do stuff like that, I never had a clue what to bring.
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