11 DECEMBER 1993, Page 34

Lamb to the slaughter

Sir: Is Nigel Nicolson just testing your read- ers' memory? He claims to have killed an animal deliberately on only one occasion (Long life, 20 November).

I recollect his vivid description not so long ago of how, when marooned and starv- ing on a Scottish island, he put an end to a sheep by hanging it.

R. Rosser

32 St John's Road, Loughton, Essex