Gilbert White's tortoise Timothy--

"Another letter dated 21st April 1780 continues;

"The old Sussex tortoise, that I have mentioned to you so often, is become my property. I dug it out of its winter dormitory in March last, when it was enough awakened to express its resentments by hissing; and, packing it in a box with earth, carried it eighty miles in post-chaises.... as it will now be under my eye, I shall now have an opportunity of enlarging my observations on its mode of life, and propensities.""