16 NOVEMBER 1991, Page 68

No. 1705: Down Memory Lane

The first Spectator Competition was set iii January 1950 by Peter Fleming, The third, set by Hilary Brett-Smith, offered £5 ('which may be divided') for nine lines to complete a poem beginning:

Some fifty years before These three had shared a bungalow In Bangalore. . .

I set you the same competition, though I give you from nine to twelve lines. Entries to 'Competition No. 1705' by 29 Novem- ber.