AN INSECT SAMSON
Does it ever occur to us that the snail is something of a Samson? His great climbs over walls and to high places might suggest a reserve of power if we studied his movements. One has been found, weighing only a quarter of an ounce, which could drag upward a weight of over two ounces, while one which weighed a third of an ounce pulled along a smooth table 12 reels of cotton, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a key, and a knife, the whole weighing. 17 ounces. That was more than 50 times the weight of the snail.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 6
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103AN INSECT SAMSON Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 131, 24 August 1927, Page 6
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