Garden Raiders
Sir Evelyn Howell, who lives in Cambridge, recommends to me the use of black thread to protect peas from jackdaws much in the same way as it is used to keep sparrows away from......
The Cleg
When a fly alighted on the back of my hand I felt the tickling sensation and then its bite which made me strike and kill it at once. It was what I was brought up to know as a......
Strawberry Losses
A few days of heavy, low cloud can make an astonishing difference to a strawberry bed, particularly if the plants are of a leafy variety such as Climax, for without sun the......
Cinema
Innocents in Paris. (Empire.)—MacDonald of the Canadian Mounties. (Leicester Square Theatre.) Sadk6. (Con- tinentale.) IT is only a couple of months since the first London......
Cat Beside The Shoe-box
A careful aesthetic might have made of this A catand shoe-box composition, purred And arched his back and thrilled in empathies. But Smart, ebullient lunatic, would bless The......
Country Life
THE old rhyme says that a swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. We were blessed with three silver spoons, all from adjoining properties. Had the swarms come in May they......
Thirst
Anyone who has spent a long hot summer day out of doors without a good supply of drinking water knows the' temptation of the water in the stream or lake. It seems so pure and......
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