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To Kevin’s surprise, Cassandra was able to make the right gesture to cue a display of data about the squirrels in question. “Just as I thought,” she said. “Non-native. The Eleventh Duke of Bedfordshire was responsible for introducing them from America in 1890. Since then they’ve all but wiped out the native red squirrel in England and Wales. Do you know, I never did think much of the Bedfordshires,” she said. “I knew the Sixth Duke. A ne’er-do-well, in my view. He was a Bonapartist, and he was opposed to the Peninsular War.
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