Air-brakes
I have often been fascinated to see how birds make use of their wings and tails to brake and turn in the air. Many water-birds slow themselves before alighting by keeping their......
A Spectator Puzzle Solved
SIR,— With your leave (to satisfy The idle curiosity Shown by F. M.) I must insist I positively do exist. The evidences all agree That I was born in '83. A pedagogue upon the......
Country Life Standing On The Bank At The Side Of
the road, I looked into the coppice at the hazels and blackberry bushes; the blackthorns and the holly. The few larger trees, one or two oaks and beeches, had made a carpet of......
Celery Trenches February Is A Good Month In Which To
prepare. trenches for celery. Take out the soil to a depth of eighteen inches, and make the trench fifteen inches wide, spread a six-inch layer of manure mixed with top soil,......
The Dead Tree
In the centre of the little wood, where I often used to go to gather nuts or pick blackberries a few years back, there stands an old dead tree. It is a chestnut, I think. The......
Sir,—
It has been said that reading Greats Makes men improve their thinking-rates. Will not a brain run even faster When it's a super-ex-headmaster ? Add " Balliol Scholar," and......
The Bard Old Willie Wears A Thing Known As. A
dicky, with a ready-tied tie and cuffs to match. It is not that he is a dressy man, for he does not bother to hide the heavy flannel shirt that peeps from behind the starched......
Mr. R. S. Thacker Sir,—with Respect To The Comment: "
What is virtually a cause célèbre lays a heavy responsibility on the District Magistrate concerned, who by the nature of things has little experience in affairs of such.magni-......
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