Day's End Evening Along The Valley Has More Blue Haze
than dusk in it. The last bus goes bouncing and swaying down the road, lit up like an exhibition, it seems, for night is a long time in coming. The little owl calls and, in the......
Holmes, Sweet Holmes
sm.,--1 think that " Picklock Holes " made his appearance in the pages of Punch some time in the nineties, or at any rate about the turn of the century.—Yours faithfully, J. M.......
Country Life
ALTHOUGH I may find it hard to explain why it is so, I have a soft spot for the rowan tree. It is not only because it takes my eye when we are over the hill of summer and on the......
Long-term Work
There i. a solid satisfaction in having a good heap of compost or manure it the garden when it i d s needed, and there is -even more satisfaction in having bedding and border......
New Poets
SIR,—The third volume in the series of anthologies of new poetry which are appearing under the imprint of Messrs. Michael Joseph will shortly be in hand. The title will be New......
Swarming Bees
As sure as summer comes and heat rises on the roads and May blossom is out, the bees swarm. I thought about it when we settled the colonies at the end of the path near the......
Horse Oil
While walking through the undergrowth in the wood, my foot 'struck against a bottle and the, bottle shattered on a stone, and, although the air was heavy with garlic, I knew the......
1je Pectator, Yalu 18t1), 1853
ALLSOPP'S PALE ALE " rules the Court,. the Camp, the Grove," and whether in the club, the pic-nic, the mess-room, or the tented common of Chobharn, is equally acceptable,......
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