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So by the time they reached the Partan Burn she had completely outclassed Hugh John.

Sarah R. Partan of Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., and her students have used a custom-built squirrel robot to track how real squirrels respond to the components of an alarm signal.

“People are always coming over, asking what we’re doing,” said Dr. Partan.

But the marquis found even the hen-pecked Partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.

He would walk straight across the road until he felt the sand under his feet; there stand for a few moments facing the sea, and, with nostrils distended, breathing deep breaths of the air from the north-east, then turn and walk back to Meg Partan's kitchen and resume his ministration of light.