ii) What chattels he has in his dwelling?
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(3) What is meant by the expression, "Whole treasure" ?
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Explanation:
Life Explained, Part Thirty-Three: Snail
The sight of an empty snail shell in the garden or on the sidewalk always saddens me. What fate befell the vanished inhabitant of that husk? "Moving at a snail's pace" will no doubt expose a creature to any number of misadventures. And so the glimmering trail ends.
I realize, dear readers, that those of you who are gardeners may see the snail as a nuisance -- a single-minded engine of destruction. I am also aware that some among you may consider the poems that follow to be instances of the worst sort of sentimental anthropomorphization, egregious examples of the Pathetic Fallacy.
I cannot muster a reasoned response to these potential objections. The best that I can come up with is this: there is no accounting for taste (mine, of course). I came across the first poem a few weeks ago, and it immediately caught my fancy. The three poems that follow it are long-time companions of which I am quite fond. It occurred to me that it would be nice to see all of them together in one place. As the benevolent (I hope!) dictator of this space, I can only beg your indulgence.
Upon the Snail
She goes but softly, but she goeth sure;
She stumbles not as stronger creatures do:
Her journey's shorter, so she may endure
Better than they which do much further go.
She makes no noise, but stilly seizeth on
The flower or herb appointed for her food,
The which she quietly doth feed upon,
While others range, and gare, but find no good.
And though she doth but very softly go,
However 'tis not fast, nor slow, but sure;
And certainly they that do travel so,
The prize they do aim at they do procure.
John Bunyan, A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children (1686).
"Gare" (line 8) is glossed by one editor as "stare about." Other editors (primarily in the 19th century) substitute "glare" in its place, apparently presuming that there was a misprint in the original text of 1686. The adjectival form of "gare" means "eager, covetous, desirous of wealth." OED. Given that Bunyan's book of children's poems was intended to edify, I would like to suggest (with absolutely no authority) that it would be nice to think of "gare" as meaning "to look about covetously." Which a wise snail would never do, of course.
Answer:
the whole treasure meant snails himself and his shell.