4 JUNE 1954, page 16

Country Life

THE scythe had been left on the patch of long grass at the end of the garden at the cottage. I was told about it as soon as it was remembered, and made a special journey to put......

The Fly'

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Spectator Competition No. 225 Set By Tom Bowling

The Belgians have recently set up a Ministr, for the Middle Claims, one of whose chief tasks, no doubt, Will be to protect its charge$ from other organs of government. A prize d......

Weed-killer

There is a time in May and lune when the days arc long and everything grows twice as fast as in the month before. Perhaps the days are lengthened to give a gardener time to cope......

Barrow Bards

To restore a touch of the lyrical now lost to our cities, competitors were invited to compose a street cry for a vendor of one of the following articles: a detergent, a home......

A Devoted , Gander Mrs. Bernard Townsend, Of Brentwood,...

this story of a devoted gander. " He and his goose lived in our half-acre paddock," she writes, " retiring each night to their wooden house beside the chickens' yard. One......