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.

a chubbed unlucky boy about the age of lord Richard

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.