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my "name and fame" had preceded me, and had acted as an 

 " open sesame" to the good man's store of Heron-lore. 



On arrival home I opened Mr. Southwell's dainty volume on 

 1 Natural History ' by Thomas Browne, and could but help 

 wishing that his remark, " The great number of riuers riuulets 

 and plashes of water makes hemes and herneries to abound in 

 these parts," held good in its entirety to-day. But to see such a 

 goodly heronry as that at Eeedham was an experience far from 

 uninteresting ; and I endorsed his further remark respecting 

 " yong hensies being esteemed a festiuall dish and much desired 

 by some palates," for I certainly prefer to "Wild Duck the carcase 

 of a juvenile Heron that has not yet grown rank by living long 

 enough on a diet of fishes and other flavouring creatures. 



