CLASSIC 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Miss Van, Coppicing, Anatidae
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A stray fox or two and some resident weasels. What did you mean about a wild beast? said van cheele later, when they were on the. There is a wild beast in your woods, said the artist cunningham, as he was being driven to the station. It was the only remark he had made during the drive, but as van cheele had talked incessantly his companion"s silence had not been noticeable. That afternoon van cheele went for one of his frequent rambles through his woodland property. He had a stuffed bittern in his study, and knew the names of quite a number of wildflowers, so his aunt had possibly some justification in describing him as a great naturalist. At any rate, he was a great walker. It was his custom to take mental notes of everything he saw during his walks, not so much for the purpose of assisting contemporary science as to provide topics for conversation afterward.
