Hawk's Quarry
On the morning after the gale I went along the path to the pighouse at the end of the kitchen garden. On a sunny patch I discovered the feathers of a small bird and at first......
Berry Crop
Berries are more plentiful in the country- side round about than I have known them for many years and I cannot recall ever having seen hips of such size and fullness. Perhaps......
A Sick Rabbit
We have increased the family's pets by one. The increase is of a temporary nature, I have insisted, for rabbit - keeping is something of a tie and since the rabbit we have in......
Country Life
THE weather forecast had mentioned a south- westerly gale and late in the afternoon, while I was on the hillside, the forecast proved correct. For more than an hour the wind had......
Orchard Work Apple Harvest Is In Full Swing And The
late varieties will be picked by the end of the month. This is the time to greaseband trees to stop the upward procession of parasites, and a good time to prepare the ground for......
Spectator Competition No. 190 Set By R. Kennard Davis
Readers are asked to imagine that the theatre was "sponsored" in the reign of Elizabeth I and to re-write a passage from Hamlet, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice or As You Like......
Bringing Up Parents
The usual prize was offered for an extract from "The Child's Manual of Adult Psy- chology" by T. Nager. Although there was a fairly solid wedge of triteness in this entry, and......
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