a chubbed unlucky boy about the age of lord Richard

He's a man of good reading.

To ward off deer, Mr. Haas, an ornithologist, has installed an electric fence around his garden in the park.

The tract was far more political and religious than sexual, but Cockburn [Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet] found it obscene because it would suggest to young persons (of either sex) impure and libidinous thoughts.