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It sat upon a larch-trunk, resting perhaps after its long journey and awaiting its predestined captors; and we caught it with the aid of our prep-school master, Mr Chorlton, who had a holiday cottage on the roadside between Elmbury and Brensham. This great man, who made us love Latin and Greek, had played cricket for Oxford and Somerset, had written a learned commentary on the plays of Aeschylus, now drank regularly a bottle of port each night after dinner and collected butterflies and moths with the enthusiasm of a schoolboy. Brensham was his favourite hunting-ground, and this in our eyes added to its glory. One
hot, still night in late August he took us up to the larch plantation and taught us the game of ‘sugaring’ for moths. Half an hour before, in the kitchen of his small cottage, we had assisted at the ceremony of preparing the ‘sugar’. Mr Chorlton took off his coat and solemnly mixed the ingredients in a saucepan to the accompaniment o
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