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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. IV. 
it was would be rewarded with a penny. The wild beast 
proved to be the carcases of a bear, which had been seen 
hanging up outside a barber’s shop as an advertisement for 
the celebrated Bear’s Grease—a pomatum for the hair, then 
much in vogue. The beast had been prepared just like a 
sheep at the butcher’s, only that the skin had been left on 
the head and hind-legs to show that it was the veritable 
animal. A luncheon party was invited to partake of 
joints of bear, and the fat from the inside was given to 
the nurse to make into pomatum for the family use. 
The young people were always presented to the nu¬ 
merous learned foreigners and illustrious travellers who 
came to Oxford to see the Professor’s world-famed 
collection of fossils and bones at the Clarendon ; and 
at dessert in the evening they were told, shortly and 
graphically, what these great men were famous for. They 
heard that Agassiz came from Switzerland, and how he 
once lived in a little hut on a glacier in order to watch 
the frozen river slowly move down the valley between the 
snow mountains about one inch a year; that Liebig was 
a great German chemist, Sir John Franklin the famous 
Arctic voyager, Warburton an African traveller, and so on. 
Occasionally one or two ill-clad foreigners with very large 
appetites would be entertained with boundless hospitality 
and courtesy. At such times the children would listen 
with curiosity to the rapid talk in a strange language, and 
watch the lively gesticulations, and wonder how, at the 
same time, the speakers could manage to empty plate after 
plate of food. 
Mrs. Buckland took great interest both in the spiritual 
