Country Life
Two cottages share the well which is close to the stream down in -the hollow. The well is deep enough to take a good-sized bucket, but only just deep enough. Its sides have been......
Pruning Fruit-trees Can Be Pruned Between The End Of Autumn
and March. Young trees should definitely be left until the end of February when the buds will have swollen. Even the old trees must be handled with care, because the frost will......
6pettator, Ibetember 40 1852
ON the 2nd of December, 1852, Louis Napoleon " accepted " the Empire of France, as on the day of which Thursday was the anniver- sary he laid violent hands on the capital and......
Farm-cat
The farm-cat belongs to no one. He shares the barn, the shippon, the straw-shed With whatever creatures are there. He comes out, when it suits him, to lap a saucer of milk . ,......
The Doctors' Silence Sir,—the Waiting-about At Hospitals...
complains is .a very long-standing trouble with the inarticulate poor; now that the articulate are being given doses of it those who cause it are hearing something. Some of it......
Winter Scene On A Sunny Day The View Across The
undulating moor is most pleasant, but now, as we came to it, everything looked desolate and not a bit improved by the leaden surface' of the lake in the hollow. One had only to......
The Pickwick Film
SIR,-1 have been waiting to see if any of your readers would write to you in protest against your sending to criticise the Pickwick Papers film a lady who has never read the......
Cheerful Postmen
When I was a boy, it was often my task to go down from the farm to the "public" road to pick up the newspaper of the day before together with the mail. The letters were brought......
Undue
6111,-1 was sorry to read in the Spectator the phrase: " There can be no justification for undue pessimism." It's a change, to be sure, from " No cause for undue alarm," but, in......
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