Leper Lepellier: quite an interesting character indeed! One minute searching for beaver dams, the next moving on to something totally unrelated. He most definitely did not go along with the crowd! He didn't care that the rest of his class was off to clear snow from the railroad tracks - he had to find that beaver dam! He, in a way, was like Chet Douglas. He was fascinated by nature the way Chet was fascinated by history, math or whatever other subject he was studying. Leper marveled at slightest things any other person would have ignored. He didn't care about "fitting in" with his peers or he just didn't have time to care about fitting in with his peers. After all, there were beaver dams to find! He also was quite dependent. Even though he went off in his solitary "splendor" most every day, he grew to rely on things. Such as nature, perhaps. Maybe one of the reasons why he was so fascinated by nature could be that it was reliable (in a way). He knew that there would always be plants......
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