Wood-pigeons
Farmer and gamekeeper are slow to learn that birds are their friends, not their enemies. The occasional folly and mischief of a friend make more impression than his plodding......
With A Elithate So Uncertain, The Best Evidence That Winter
is over is our own behaviour rather than the weather, which may be as stormy and cold as January or as serene as September. Small boys have been spinning tops for three weeks......
The Tolpuddle Martyrs On March 19th, One Hundred Years Ago,
six labourers of Tolpuddle, Dorset, were condemned to seven years' trans- portation for having formed a union at which an oath was taken. Their wages were seven shillings a......
The Flower Harvest The Penzance Flower Show Was Held Last
week. Few of us are so blessed as to be able to live in the shelter of Mount's Bay, where there really is no winter. In the Midlands a daffodil is in flower here and there, but......
But In Altering The Breeding Season, Man Has To Assume
the responsibility of providing food and shelter unavailable in natural conditions. This is expensive, and so, where out-of- season breeding shows no advantage, he does not......
Adaptable Nature.
The way of animals is to bear their young in the spring, so that they can mature, or advance to independence, under the kindest conditions of weather and with an abundance of......
• Country Life
Official Spring Spring, bearing gifts, is no more to be trusted than the Greeks. She is as fickle and treacherous, and as devious and protracted in fulfilment. What she weaves......
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