17 FEBRUARY 1990, page 45

No. 1615: Child's-eye View

In his commonplace book, A Beggar in Purple, Rupert Hart-Davis quotes a ten- year-old child's essay describing an animal: 'The cow . . has six sides — right, left, an upper and......

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Competition

Dear Sir (dear God!) Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1612 you were asked for a letter of unconscious and staggering banality such as occasionally gets printed in a newspaper. I......

Crossword

A first prize of CO and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions......