The Sketch Book. An Hour too Many
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, Extract, Short Fiction, Drollery |
Publications extracted: | Forget Me Not |
Subjects: | Naturalists, Collecting, Scientific Practioners |
Institutions mentioned: | Royal Society |
The narrator describes how as a child he always had a 'superabundance of time'. He observes; 'a naturalist-taste for bird-nesting, which, in maturer years would have made me one of the wonders of the Linnæan Society; a passion for investigating the inside of every thing, from a Catherine-wheel to a China-closet, which would yet have entitled me to the honours of an F. R. S. [...] were nature's helps to get rid of this oppressive bounty'. (260) |
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