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Francis Turner's avatar

A lovely story.

Talking of butterflies and pheasants I'm reminded of Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co story "In Ambush"

https://www.di2.nu/files/kipling/StalkyandCo.html#1

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Katy Barnett's avatar

HAH! Yes! Even a legal aspect…

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Francis Turner's avatar

trespassing in particular :)

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Katy Barnett's avatar

Very much trespassing! LOL, years since I’d read those stories!

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Paul Norton's avatar

Then there are the fictional Brooke brothers who Thomas Hughes presented as models of English masculinity in Tom Brown's School Days.

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Katy Barnett's avatar

So many literary echoes!

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