18258-130.] 
HOME LIFE 
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“ In summer afternoons, after the early three o’clock 
dinner, Dr. Buckland would drive out Mrs. Buckland and 
their children in a carriage, known as the bird’s-nest, to 
Bagley Wood, to hunt for moles and nests, or to Port 
Meadow to gather yellow iris and water-lilies, and fish 
for minnows, and often to set free a bright-hued king- 
PROFESSOR AND MRS. BUCKLAND AND FRANK. 
fisher (they were plentiful in those days) which he had 
redeemed from some mischievous urchin with a sixpence. 
Or another day to Shotovcr, to dig in the quarries for 
oysters and gryphites ; or again to Iffley, to gather snakes’ 
heads (FritMaries). Both father and mother were devotedly 
fond of flowers, and their horse stopped automatically at 
every nursery garden, as at every quarry. Some of the 
graver dons were perhaps a little scandalised by such 
