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One of my neighbours, fond also of his garden, but whose nights were taken up with his duties in Parliament, offered his sons 3d per dozen to gather and destroy them; he soon, however, reduced the price to that rate per hundred, but afterwards told me that it would ruin a bank to keep it going, so gave it up.
The Garden, March 23, 1878

"I'm a regular Dodman, I am," said Mr. Peggoty, by which he meant snail, being an allusion to his being slow to go.
Dickens, C., David Copperfield, 1850

...though the lime, to be effective, can neither be too hot, too fine nor too dry, and the mere quantity of it is of less moment than these qualities, yet something more than a fine mist is needed to deal death to British slugs, as I can testify after a thirty years' war against them, and the expenditure of not a few chaldrons* of the hottest lime upon them.
The Garden, March 30, 1878
*chaldron:an old coal measure holding 36 heaped bushels

Limaces, or garden slugs have few, if any redeeming qualities in the opinion of gardeners, and yet even these unsightly creatures have a place in creation, for which they are wonderfully constructed.
Roberts, M. A Popular History of the Mollusca. Reeve & Benham 1851