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It seems to me that birds are always rather tamer at the crises of migration than at other times. I was walking last week with a friend on the links at Cooden Beach when a......
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Allotments and the love of them have grown steadily among the urban population as they have decayed among the rural. Great areas of land in country places, once given up to......
Both Were Some Height In The Air And Would Have
flown over the yacht, when the lark closed his wings and dived straight down, finally settling itself between the bare feet of the observer. There it crouched till the hawk flew......
Such A Story May Seen To Many To Belong To
the class known as tall. But scores of examples are extant of this sort of action on the part of frightened animals. One was told me years ago by Mr. Thompson Seton. The details......
Country Life
TUE BOLDNESS OF FEAR. The tale—and photographs—of the swallows in Austria, overcome by stress of weather and hunger, has brought out more saliently than any incident in the......
Urban Gardeners.
A plan that has given health and happiness and, indeed, some wealth (since production is the only true wealth) to many hard-working people has just come to an official end ; but......
The Working Of The Scheme Is Worth Imitation By Any
and every municipality. Plots and seeds are obtained from the Labour Exchange and a spade lent to each allottee. In most cases 300 square yards are rented at 2d. a week, and the......
Wieere Daddies Swarm.
Walking the other day on the edge of Sussex Downs some of us were astonished at the multitude of crane-ffies : those queer clumsy beasts that have earned almost the best of all......
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