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THE BOY WHO LIKED BUGS

Some two hundred years ago, there was a boy named Charles who lived with his family in a big fancy house in the country. His favourite place was the garden, where he could run around and find creepy-crawlies.

When he wasn’t pestering the gardener with questions about how plants grew, the skinny rosy-cheeked lad was out exploring. There was a glasshouse full of amazing tropical plants, a wood to wander in, and beyond that the river, where he could find

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