24 OCTOBER 1952, page 14

Moonlight Encounter

Meeting R. on • the moonlit road, I stopped to talk. He had a mongrel pup at his •heel, a lively little animal that he was already bringing into the way of rabbiting. It was too......

Buzzard And Grouse

My brother and I were tramping home on the second half .of an eighteen-mile walk, and hurrying before the rain, when a buzzard rose in the rough ground Jo our right. He rose so......

Salmon-poachers

" Salmons, man. The river wass full of them," he said: " The poachers got more than them that owned the water. They knew every pool, every hole and every salmon that wass comin'......

Country Life

IT was one of those autumn evenings when the light made the scene look unreal. It was an orange light, touching the underside of a great black bank of cloud and the tops of......

Anemones It Is Not Too Late To Put In Anemones

even-yet. Both the Caen and St. Brigid need a well-drained, sunny situation, and, unless the soil is light, they should be lifted each season. They are, I think, one of the......