nojoke to me for I had shot a large number of birds. but did not know of string tied to a bUllon-hole. This my wicked of my zeal, for I tried to persuade myself that of my autumnal visits to Maer in 1827 was memorable from : how many. and could not add them to my list. which 1 used to do by making a knot in a piece friends had perceived. I How I did enjoy shooting. but I think that I must have been half- consciously ashamed who was the best converser I ever listened to. I heard afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said, 'There is something in that young man that interests me.' This must have been chiefly due to his perceiving that 1 listened with much interest to eveything which he said, for 1 was as ignorant as a pig about his subjects of history, politicks and moral philosophy. To hear of

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nojoke to me for I had shot a large number of birds. but did not know of string tied to a bUllon-hole. This my wicked of my zeal, for I tried to persuade myself that of my autumnal visits to Maer in 1827 was memorable from

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how many. and could not add them to my list. which 1 used to do by making a knot in a piece friends had perceived. I How I did enjoy shooting. but I think that I must have been half- consciously ashamed who was the best converser I ever listened to. I heard afterwards with a glow of pride that he had said, 'There is something in that young man that interests me.' This must have been chiefly due to his perceiving that 1 listened with much interest to eveything which he said, for 1 was as ignorant as a pig about his subjects of history, politicks and moral philosophy. To hear of

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