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individuality, along with the faithful line-by- 

 line reproduction of the work itself. My brother 

 took great pleasure in his portion of the under- 

 taking, verified the foreign names of the birds 

 with his usual precision, and gave useful hints 

 and criticisms in the matter of the figures. 

 Alas ! that the hand, so active in spite of its 

 crippled condition, and the brain, so readily re- 

 sponsive to the demands made upon it, should 

 have been laid low before the work was completed. 

 Such were the interests and occupations of 

 days spent in the house ; out of doors during 

 the summer months he had pleasures of an- 

 other kind. Lilford Hall, as I have already men- 

 tioned, stands on slightly rising ground above 

 the river Nene, a sluggish stream whose waters, 

 stocked with many kinds of fish, have afforded 

 amusement — and, in some cases, involuntary 

 immersion — to the Powys children of succes- 

 sive generations. My brother's bath-chair was 

 drawn on to a strongly built barge, and in 

 this manner he was enabled to spend many 

 hours on the river with a fishing-rod. One of 

 the attendants was at hand to bait his rod, or 

 render any other service that so crippled a 



