30 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 16

[To TEN EDITOR OP TIM " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — A farmer's wife

in this neighbourhood (Warwickshire) is in the habit of receiving parcels of broken chocolate from the manufacturers for the chickens. One day lately, the chickens having eaten, in the sunny farmyard, all that they required, a number of wasps came to finish the chocolate, whereupon a family of ducklings rushed upon the wasps and, darting and jumping at them, gobbled them up. They were none the worse even a week afterwards.—I am, Sir, &c.,

INTERESTED.