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Show LIVE8 HIS LIFE APART. Aged White Peacock Refuses to Associate As-sociate with Fellows. The agricultural school which the Countess of Warwick founded in Essex, Es-sex, England, ten years ago, and which Is to be closed forthwith on ao-count ao-count of lack of support, was founded for the purpose of supplying a onnd education to boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 17 who intended to follow rural pursuits. Those who know how hard the countess has worked to make this and similar schemes "a success will understand her keen disappointment Outside her work, Lady Warwick finds chief rcreatlon In her garden and In the society of her various pets. Among the latter must be numbered some 60 peacocks, which are to be seen about the grounds at Warwick castle. Lady Warwick takes immense pride in these birds, and tends them with great care. There is one puro white bird which never mixes with the others, but stands aloof In "splendid isolation." The oldest man employed on fhe estate es-tate says his father could not remember remem-ber the time when it was not at tho castle, which would make It nearly a century old at least. Although his wonderful white tall Is getting very thin, he exhibits no other sign of age, but' he novcr associates or feeds with the other peacocks. |