Shot-firing
A man in dusty blue overalls stepped out intei OF road and waved a tattered flag for us to pull up. We came to a halt and the flagman advanced and put his hand on the door.......
Country Life
WHEN we called in at the shop in the village to allow my companion to get his fishing per- mit, the sun was shining and three old men were leaning on a whitewashed wall across......
The Purity Drive
SIR, ---lt would he more to the point if Mr. Herbert van Thal's suggestion that Milton s Areopagitica be made compulsory reading as a text in all schools were extended also t°......
Spectator Competition No. 212 Report By R. Kennard Davis
(II. A. C. EVANS) How strange to think that roses Have neither eyes nor noses, Whose beauty, as one gazes, Outshines the poet's praises; Whose colours, forms and sizes Are......
Smoking Out Bata
Referring ' to my note about the problem of getting rid of a plague of grey squirrels in the roof of a large house, Mr. D. V. H. Smith of Harpenden offers an interesting......
Sir,—i Am Impelled By Sir Compton Mackenzie To Make A
confession. I was born in 1892. Two or three years ago when filling up a form on a bumpy air voyage I wrote down 1829 by a slip. I waited, to see what would happen. Nothing. The......
Spectator Competition No. 215 Set By Geoffrey Caston...
No. 215 Set by Geoffrey Caston The mediaeval guilds were in the habit of demanding from initiates subscription to an oath setting out briefly the general principles to which......
Tearing Up Passports
dawn to dusk all frontiers remained completely open ? Even if the scheme were operated only between Belgium and Luxembourg, a beginning would have been made, a symbolic gesture......
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