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C om p etit io n No. 1206: Nature-loving Set by Jaspistos: In the footsteps

but not the manner of Charles Kingsley, who wrote an 'Ode to the North-East Wind', you are invited to compose a poem (maximum 16 lines) in praise of a slug, a bog, a fog, a tor- nado or any other traditionally unpleasant natural phenomenon. Entries to 'Competi- tion No. 1206' by 5 March.