Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-12

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And vet Ne find hun "a iay a member of
several societies of na'uralisis. the Lin
uean Society among Others. and ~ hon
cred pensiouer Of the Quern.
His father was a Scottish linen weaver.
and for some time "a private soldier 10 the
militia regiment which was called into
sctive service during the wars with Ma
pOleon; and il was while the regiment
was stationed at an English seaport that
this remarkable child was born. A few
months after, when the Waterloo victory
had given peace to Europe, the regiment
was ordered home and disbanded, and
this family settled at Aberdeen, where the
father resumed his former occupation.
Now the peculiar character of Thomas
Edward began to exhibit itself. He
showed an extraordinary fondness for
animals, to the sore distress and torment
of his parents and their neighbors.
1t was taste purely natural, for not
only was it not encouraged, it was strong.
ly discouraged by every one who could be
supposed to have influence over the boy.
He disappeared one day when he, was
scarcely able to walk, and when he had
been gone for some hours he was found
in . pig-sty fast asleep, near particular
~ savage SOW and her pigs. As soon as
he could walk we'll enough his delight
was to ramble along the shore and into
the country, gathering tad-poles, beetles,
frogs, crabs, mice, rats, and spiders, to
the horror of his mother, to say nothing
of the neighbors, for these awful cres-
lures escaped into houses near by and
appeared to the inmates at the most un-
expected moments.
His parents scolded and whipped him,
but his love of animal life was uncon-
querable, and the only effect of opposing
1t was to make him more cunning in its
qualification. They tied the little fellow
by his leg to table, but he drew the
table up near the fire. burnt the rope in
halves, and was off for the fields. They
hid his coat, but he took his elder broth
or's coat and ran. Then they hid all his
clothes, but he slipped on an old petit.
coat, and had another glorious day out of
doors, returning with fever in his veins
which brought him to deaths door.
All these things, and many others like
them, happened when he was still boy
under five years of age. Recovering from
his fever he resumed his old tricks, and
brought home one day, wrapped in his
shirt, wasp's nest, which his father took
from him and plunged into hot water.
Between four and five he was sent to
school, his parents thinking to keep him
out of mischief of this kind. But he
had not the least interest in school knowl-
edge, and constantly played truant; and
when he did come 10 school he brought
with him ell kinds of horrid insects, rep
tiles and birds. One morning during
prayers a jsckdsw began to cav, and as
the bird was traced to the ownership of
Thomas Edward, he was dismissed from
the school in great disgrace. His per-
picked parents sent him TO another school,
the teacher of which used more vigorous
measures to cure him of his propensity.
applying to his back an instrument If
sorture called 1.-THE taws." Ii vas in vain.
From this secoud school he was expelled
because some se-leeches which he had
hsoaght 10 school in . bottle escaped,
cxeps ~ the legs of the other boys, and
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