ABSTRACT
The biggest leaf here in the country is certainly the burdock leaf. Put one in front of your waist and it’s just like an apron, and if you lay it upon your head it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is quite remarkably large. A burdock never grows alone; where there is one tree there are several more. It’s splendid to behold! And all this splendour is snails’ meat. The great white snails, which the grand people in old times used to have made into fricassees, and when they had eaten them they would say, “H’m, how good that is!” for they had the idea that it
tasted delicious. These snails lived on burdock leaves, and that’s why burdocks were sown.
