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SYMHC Classics: Walter Potter's Wild and Wonderful Taxidermy

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The White Lion, a Pet Canary

He was born in sussex, ah in 18 35, and he worked at family's inn. No one ever really talks about his early childhood. At proximately aged 15, he im presumingbea, i'm presuming that his pet canary passed before he had the idea to preserve it. Ah, let's hope so. Ye, it was a memento amost ye. And this was at a time when preserving your pets was starting to become more popular. He may have seen something about it or read something about it. It wasn't necessarily a thing an idea he would have just magically had on his own.

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