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two Little auks, playing on the sea, were drawn 

 from one little bird picked up in the Oxford 

 meadows during a storm, and allowed to dis- 

 port itself in the undergraduate's bath, and so 

 the two positions were secured that made the 

 picture. The Golden-eagle is one from St. 

 Moritz ; and the Spotted-eagle is his old Harrow 

 favourite, that flew free about Mottisfont for 

 some time. It would wing its way right across 

 the Test valley to a large "Scarr" of bare 

 chalk cliff on the downs opposite, returning 

 every evening to be fed at the aviaries. 



At the age of ten Dan made a rare collection 

 of British wild flowers, only to be succeeded the 

 next year by an equally good one of butterflies 

 and moths. He set his butterflies beautifully. 

 The caterpillars, and how to preserve them, 

 bothered him for some time, until he learnt 

 from Mr. Meek, the Naturalist, the art of 

 " rolling them with a pencil" blowing them 

 out, and arranging them in natural positions. 

 This mode of death, at first, rather shocked his 

 kindly nature. " But how do you kill them ?" 

 said the boy. "Kill them?" said the 

 naturalist, " there is'nt much life left when 

 their insides are out." A year or two later Dan 

 had the satisfaction of teaching this method of 

 preserving caterpillars to Mr. Henry Elwes, a 



