Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.Gilbert White
I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters, a young one and a female with young, both of which I have preserved in brandy.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
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