The Religious Tract Society might have thought that God is punishing mollusks by imprisoning them in shells... I guess slugs did something righteous...
Allen Aigen
On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 02:23:20 PM EDT, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Stumbled across this curiosity book on eBay.
Most amused by the title,
...I'm assuming they are referring to the animal inside as an Inmate?
Leslie
"Shells and their Inmates", 1841.
The Religious Tract Society, London.
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