Timothy begins:
"I was gone for more than a week before they found me. A rustling in the bean-field, heavy steps nearby. A shout -- the boy's voice -- more shouts. Thomas catches me up in his hands with sickening haste. I weigh six pounds thirteen ounces. He lifts me as though I weigh nothing at all."Verlyn Klinkenborg writes 117 pages of fictional autobiography in which Timothy the tortoise describes his life in the garden of 18th century naturalist Gilbert White.
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