FOR THE PUPIL

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gray harrier: so named because of his habit of flying low and “harrying,” that is, hunting, catching small prey on or near the ground. “Harry” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for army.

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He looketh as it were a grym leoun”: from Chaucer’s description of the Cock in the story of the Cock and the Fox.

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terrible pike: closely related to the pickerel.

kingfisher: builds in holes in sand-banks near water. Its peculiar rattle sounds like the small boys’ “clapper.”

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The present only toucheth thee!”: Burns’s poem “To a Mouse.”

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