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| | Talk to the Animals: Thornton W. Burgess Etexts |
 | | Conservationist Thornton Burgess used his observations of nature in his many books and stories for children, which are populated with such familiar characters as Peter Rabbit, Reddy Fox, Blacky the Crow, and Jerry Muskrat. |
 | | Burgess was born on January 14, 1874, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where he was brought up by his mother; his father died when he was only nine months old. |
 | | Burgess died of lung cancer in Hampden, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1965, at the age of ninety-one. |
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