Trout For Supper On The Lee Shore The Edge Of
the water was covered with the bodies of a million midges and other flies that had hatched in the heat of the previous day and died in the cold breeze at dusk. There seemed to......
Earthing Up
Some people earth up immediately they have planted potatoes, but, on the whole, earthing up as the shoots show is more practical and protection can be given when a frost warning......
The Hoopoe
`My husbapd and I both saw a hoopoe in Withing- ton Wood, between Cirencester and Cheltenham, last Friday,' says a corrrespondent.1 saw it on the ground and my husband and I......
Chess
By PHILIDOR Nu. 101. A. BATORI (1st Prize, 'Magee Theme' Tourney, 1919) BLACK (I I men) MUTE 1)3 men) mum to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last......
First Murder
We remember the Titanic and Lusitania not because they were great disasters but because they were small ones. Such catastrophic events as the great Bengal famine of 1943 or the......
Country Life
By IAN NIALL ALL sorts of things point the progress of agriculture —a plea for care in the use of harmful sprays in the interest of bees that fertilise fruit buds; one horse in......
Undated
'THEY mocked at Tennyson, yawned over George Eliot, and swept through Dickens by leaps....' Thus did the young hooligans of the early twentieth cen- tury behave in their wanton......
Tu Rn-tabl Es The Gramophone Record Must Be The Most...
item in the catalogue of collectable things. No stamp, book, picture or bird's egg ever received the philistine treatment accorded by most collectors to their discs. The victims......
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