23 NOVEMBER 1956, page 24

A Belligerent Sow

Pigs are highly intelligent creatures, but they are also vindictive and show a little of the devil, as a friend testified the other day. He had been walking along a footpath......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL FASHION, in most things, radiates from towns, hence the long-haired youths with drain-pipe trousers seen in quite rural villages. Fashion in furnishings spreads in......

Ants In Amsterdam Apart From Entomologists, I Don't...

people bother about the life of ants in winter. It is rather out of season now to offer advice on dealing with invasions of ants but, to show that the trouble is not purely a......

Spectator Competition No. 354 Set By J. .a. R. Pimlott

A prize of six guineas is offered for a set of three mottoes or .couplets suitable for - the crackers at a literary, 'U,' Anglo-American, Third Programme, 'olde- fashioned,' or......

Civil Cyphers

Competitors were invited to devise suitable code words for any six of the following : the opening of the Walsingham tomb, the Russian athletes' departure, the framing of an......