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Natural history, lore and legend

Note 7 — Chapter I

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He only used one pen throughout, a circumstance which he deemed sufficiently remarkable to be celebrated in these lines which are prefixed to his book:—

“With one sole pen I wrote this book, Made of a grey goose quill. A pen it was when I it took, A pen I leave it still.”

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