Country Life
READ the other day of a branch line of a railway in Devon that passes through remote moorland places where nothing ever happens. It was said that this line is under continual......
Herbaceous Plants
November is the best time for tidying up herbaceous borders and improving herbaceous plants used in rockeries. The old clumps should be lifted and split for transplanting and......
Gleeful Gluttony
England possesses a great number of Drinking Songs, but as far as I am aware, no Eating Songs. For the usual prize of £5, competitors were invited to remedy this deficiency, in......
Duck Shooting
There was a time when the passenger pigeon darkened the skies as it crossed America. Some accounts of their migrations tell how they came over so thickly that the men who......
An Odd Trio
Writing from Fordingbridge a reader remarks: 'Some friends of ours who live at Haverfordwest had a motherless lamb which had to be brought up by hand. A cock was given to them......
Spectator Competition No. 248 Set By E. Arnot Robertson...
is more damning than self-praise which goes wrong: 'Yes, we're going to be married. He's been so patient, I feel he deserves his reward,' or 'In my household everyone works as......
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