Hmmm…. If I have time (I’m juggling several things now and don’t have it), I’ll have to check into it. We’ve got a small yard, but my husband’s back issues prevent him from doing it himself, so we’ve relied on a lawn service for a couple of years now. I would be willing to bet that a lawn bot could be programmed to handle, although there are a couple of terrain issues that could be challenging.
No, I buy a lot of the “classic” books used, so mine was an “educational” edition put out by an education-oriented press, so they had some illustrations, definitions, etc., but the illustrations were not Thackeray’s. Despite their definitions, I was still looking up some stuff. For example, “coral” (I think it was) was a word used for a child’s teething ring at the time — apparently, they were usually red. “Sharply defined characters” were a big reason why I liked it — and also that they were pretty realistic, given the time. That is, he was skirting some restrictions regarding what his readership would tolerate on the ethics issues, but he was (to me) remarkably straightforward, given that anything else I’ve read of this era was in my high school literature class.
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