Question: Trying to find title/author of story I read many years ago, around 1964. Story was written from the point of view of a snail like creature. The central character describes (stream-of-consciousness?) himself and other characters moving along a path in a constant search for food. The story ends with the main character falling into what turns out to be the fuel tank of a space ship.

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There may be others but I nominate ["James"](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62952), a short story by [Gordon R. Dickson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson), first published in the [*The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction*, May 1955](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?61290+c), available at the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/stream/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v008n05_1955-05#page/n49/mode/2up). (The title refers to ["The Four Friends"](http://allpoetry.com/The-Four-Friends) by [A. A. Milne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne).)

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> James huffled.  
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> He paused, his horns searching the air. Something was coming toward him along the brick he himself was traversing. For a moment he tensed, then his trained perception recognized that the one approaching was another snail. James glowed with pleasure and hurried to meet him.  
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If that doesn't ring a bell, maybe a quotation from the Milne poem will:

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> *"James gave the* huffle *of a snail in danger—*  
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You don't give much detail, but it sounds like Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward. From Wikipedia: *Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of a sesame seed who live, think and develop a million times faster than humans.*