The Giant Eel
We have met three or four times up at the lake, and each time I have heard the story of the great eel. Its skin was :` the length of a door and two hand-spans wide." The teller......
Forcing Rhubarb
Rhubarb can be forced and an early pulling obtained if 'the crowns are covered now. A box with the bottom knockZd . out is useful, or even an old tin bath treated in the same......
Pheasant's Flight
As I was going up through the wood I saw something moving ahead, past the dying nettles, up among the elderberries and on across the slope beneath the firs. It was the cock......
A Fighting Weasel
I am indebted to Mr. E. R. Cobb for an account of a weasel's attack on a cat. The account is given in a letter from Mr. Cobb's son who lives at Trumpington near Cambridge and is......
Country Life
FROST makes the fire bright, they say. The fire was burning clearly, and the embers of the logs were bright, but if one sits by a wood-fire on a frosty afternoon sleep is......
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