I Was Lucky Enough To Sec The Birds And The
building opera- tions this week ; and the quaint precision of the spectacle is worth some description. The cock is a fine fellow, especially in spring when (in spite of his......
It Is A Question Of No Little Interest To Natural
historians whether the eggs will hatch in this country. Their failure to hatch last year when some fertile eggs were laid in a similarly gigantic pile was due to the abnormal......
Country Life
TOR NEW FARM. TWO advertisements, curiously indicative of the transition in English farming, have appeared this week. One is the notice of special half-day express excursions......
The Cock's Selection Of Material Is As Rough Almost As
the mechanics of his building. The heap consists of dead leaves, mostly of ash and bramble, of green shoots of the bluebell and of dried sticks, all heaped together anyhow. Yet,......
A Unique Nesx.
The new Zoo at Whipsnade has a host of virtues possessed by no other zoo in the world ; and needs no justification ; but if it did, I should feel inclined to quote the present......
Zoo Vitamines.
On this subject of Antipodean leaves some valuable researches have come to a happy conclusion, partly as the result of the Whipsnade experiment. Our zoologists have discovered......
The Recent Query As To The Exact Meaning Of The
shepherd's tale in L'Alkgro suggests that the poets, though on the whole they have described the English country better than any prose-writer, have been singularly weak critics......
To Return To South Lincolnshire--ti Journey There To See The
daffodils .to-day or the tulips some ten days later is as wel worth while as a visit to Haarlem, for several centuries the headquarters of the industry. We grow in England fewer......
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