If a bear came, he would shut the door and raise the window, not too far, and blaze away from there.
But in none of all these things, either present exploits or imaginings for the future, was his interest most entangled.

His specialty was Snakes.
Not intended by nature for a naturalist was this youthful individual whose specialty was snakes.

Very much enamored was he of most of nature's products, but not at all of the family _ophidia_.

Snakes were his specialty simply because he did not approve of them.

All dated back to the affair of three years before.