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ever he could contrive to find a little leisure-time. Yet 

 he managed to translate from the French Alphonse 

 Karr's charming "Tour Eound my Garden," and to 

 bring it out with divers editorial notes. This was in 

 1852, in June of which year came his Ordination ; 

 and then for two years he was husier than ever. The 

 work of the parish took up almost the whole of his 

 time; every hour of every day had its own special 

 duties assigned to it. And literature had, of course, to 

 go to the wall. 



In the following year, however, appeared the first 

 volume of " Anecdotes of Animal Life," which had 

 been written mainly before his Ordination, and com- 

 pleted in odds and ends of spare time afterwards. The 

 title of the work explains itself, as far as its general 

 idea is concerned ; but, so far from being in any way 

 comprehensive in its scope, it was limited to some eight 

 or nine animals only, which were treated at consider- 

 able length, in anecdotal manner, and discussed most 

 thoroughly from different points of view. In 1856 

 appeared the second volume of the same work, in which 

 the same system was adopted with another group of 

 animals, both volumes meeting with a very fair measure 

 of success. The two have since been published together 

 under the less happy title of "Animal Traits and 

 Characteristics." 



His next literary work was the editing of " Every 

 Boy's Book," for Messrs. Eoutledge & Co., a task for 

 which his own skill in almost all outdoor and indoor 

 sports eminently fitted him. And then in 1854 he 



