I NEVER KNEW my GRANDFATHER. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of COURSE, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure ISLAND,' and whatnot.

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Beetles and BUTTERFLIES are sometimes restricted to SMALL areas. Each MOUNTAIN in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be EVERYWHERE. I WONDER if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

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I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the WAY I would a litigant. PEOPLE wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all ALONE on an island.

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