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his notice, or that of his correspondents and others. 

 Most of these he from time to time published in 

 some way or other. To some of them allusion has 

 already been made. To the Fireside Magazine, 

 for instance, he contributed a "Thousand and One 

 Stories from Nature/' his "Anecdotes in Natural 

 History" contained one hundred and seventy-five, 

 and his "Records of Animal Sagacity and Character" 

 three hundred and eighteen in all, nearly fifteen 

 hundred. The year 1882 found him still with a con- 

 siderable number of such animal stories on hand. 

 Accordingly he contributed in that year to the 

 pages of the County Gentleman a hundred of these, 

 which he headed "A Century of Anecdotes of 

 Animals and Birds," characteristically adding at the 

 end of his few introductory words, " I most sincerely 

 hope that the stories may tend to the promotion of 

 a good and kind feeling towards all God's creatures." 

 This, indeed, might have been prefixed to all he 

 wrote about them either in this or any other way, 

 for it truly expressed what he himself felt. 



Indications of this kind might be almost inde- 

 finitely multiplied showing what a store of facts 

 connected with various branches of natural history 

 came before his notice from time to time, either 

 from his own observations or those who corre- 

 sponded with him. 



