Cats And Swallows.
rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some of your readers may be interested in this incident, which happened recently. We took our two cats into a field above our garden one......
A Bird-story.
[TO TH1 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:I Sin,—For nearly forty years one wing of my old house in Hertfordshire has been the nesting-place of numerous families of starlings, sparrows,......
Sir,—you Have Not Yet Exhausted The Jubilee...
listening, the other day, to a cottager's account of her share in the rejoicings of June 22nd, and as her ideas as to the cause of the rejoicings appeared vague, I made a remark......
The Nunnery.
ALONG the Kentish lanes we speed On the last day of lovely June : Like harvesters among the weed Lining the hedge, we lunch at noon ; Onward ! at last our wheels are stayed......
The Extermination Of The Golden Eagle_
[To VIZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'l Sin,—The other day it was announced in several papers that a fine male "specimen" of the golden eagle was taken at a high altitude on Cam n......
Poetry.
THE LURE.* Coin hither and behold them, Sweet— The fairy prow that o'er me rides, And white sails of a lagging Fleet On idle tides. Come hither and behold them, Sweet— The......