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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

Katy Barnett's avatar

HAH! Yes! Even a legal aspect…

Francis Turner's avatar

trespassing in particular :)

Katy Barnett's avatar

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

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.

Katy Barnett's avatar

So many literary echoes!