26 JULY 1957, page 26

Cat Licks

A friend has just been telling me that her n called on an _unexpected visit from a place 1 .011 . fifty miles away within a few seconds after O n member of the family remarked......

Smart Mongrel

'I wonder why people are so keen to have bred dogs,' remarks a correspondent. 'The crosc 4 ; ones have so much more brains. We have, a i cr corgi-spaniel and he is quite the......

Spectator Crossword No. 950

ACROSS 1 Kiosk and occupant alike? (10) 6 It's to be found in that fatal charm (4). 10 'The dark unfathom'd caves of -bear' (Gray) (5). II A bloater's the thing for a star-gazer......

Pear Pruning Pear Pruning

Certain varieties of pear fruit on the tips of ne r shoots and not on spurs and these should be f 3 ,„ fully handled when summer pruning, only the n o of the crowded tree being......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL MANY an amateur naturalist, without much data, concludes that there are fewer hares in his locality or.for instance, more owls than there used to be. The......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No, 112. E. BOSWELL ('Svenska Daebladet,' 1928) ot.aca (4 men) WHITE (3 men) witrre to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......