Besides, they could not imagine exactly how it felt to be boiled and placed on a silver dish ; but no doubt it was something very fine and highly genteel.
Neither the cockchafer, nor the toad, nor the earth-worm, whom they questioned about it, would give them the least information; for none of their relations had ever been cooked or served on a silver dish.
The old white snails were the most aristocratic race in the world,– they knew that.
www.andersenstories.comWie es im übrigen war, gekocht zu werden und auf einer silbernen Schüssel zu liegen, konnten sie sich nicht vorstellen, aber herrlich musste es sein und besonders vornehm.
Weder Maikäfer, noch Kröten oder Regenwürmer, die sie darum befragten, konnten Bescheid geben. Keins von ihnen war gekocht worden oder hatte auf einer silbernen Schüssel gelegen.
Die alten weissen Schnecken waren die vornehmsten in der Welt, das wussten sie.
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