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animal Creation that inhabit our domain ? I 

 think I told you I had got some capital 

 arrows. We shall have some fine shooting. 

 I have also got some slate pencils of a capital 

 sort, also a good stock of black lead ones, 

 and pens, and a knife for you. There are 

 some beautiful botanising places in this 

 neighbourhood, and lovely woods in which 

 you might wander for a twelvemonth without 

 getting out ; and winding rivers where you 

 might fish for trout and salmon for twenty 

 years, and not empty the place. That's a 

 paradise, is it not ? Endless woods and rivers 

 the one for botany, the other for ichthyology 

 which is the science for knowing, dis- 

 criminating, catching, cooking and eating 

 fish, from two Greek words signifying ' fish ' 

 and a 'discourse.' Never fear my having a 

 long coat when I come home. Spare your 

 sneers on that point. I sport cap and jacket 

 as in Shetland." 



Here is a shrewd bit of writing, considering 

 the age and experience of the writer. 



"Mr Lawson is more of a theoretical 

 agriculturist than a practical one, but his 

 foreman, and his head-botanist (a German 

 named Kellerman) are both excellent agricul- 



