Now One Object Of-" The Village" Is To Pool Information
on the various efforts made in any and every county to restore and maintain the vitality and vivacity of village life. For example, the village of Cambo in Northumberland has a......
The Face Of Our Villages Expresses Their Soul, If The
word is allowable ; and the C.P.R.E. builds even better than it knows in preserving the external beauty. It is the one social unit where neighbourliness, in the strict sense of......
* * * * London Gulls Again.
While staying in Essex I came upon the real cause, or so it seems to me, of the coming of the gulls to London. The established explanation, which most of us have endorsed,......
A Lawn Bowl.
A certain delightful way of showing spring flowers may be unknown to some householders. The receipt is this : take a cork mat and float it in a bowl of water. Sow grass seed.......
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QUAIL AND LINNET. We do not eat specially fattened gulls, but we still eat specially fattened quail ; and it is a lamentable fact which must be registered that this trade in......
Country Life
THE NEw VILLAGE. The village, especially the English village, is one of the only social units that may be said to have a soul of its own ; and it must be good for England that......
Dusty Bees.'
Some further account has reached me from the unhappy. Argentine of the fate of the bees which as a rule find their optimum in that part of the country. They died in their tens......
* * * 5 A Delightful Account Of One Of
the breeding grounds is quoted from old Fuller. " There is an island ofseme 200 acres near Harwich called the Puit Island (i.e. Pewit gulls) in effect' the sole inhabitants......
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THE USEFUL PHEASANT In answer to a question about game and farms — on the highly cultivated marshes of South Lincolnshire it a farm, one of the best in England, where the......
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