Promise Of Spring
So much bedding has been wheeled out from the standing-in herd that the midden towers at the back of the shippon. On a bank at the bottom of the field snowdrops are showing. One......
Country Life
Tim closing of gates is a thing one must not forget when crossing a farmer's land. Round about there are several gates bearing an advertise- ment for a farming journal and a......
Brock's Death
After .dark the road is quiet. For a period of an hour or so three or four cars may come rattling down or struggling up to the farms and villages " back in the country," as they......
Preparing For Shallots
Among the early jobs in the vegetable-garden arc the putting in of parsnips and shallots. Some people are inclined to put down shallots too early. I doubt whether they gain in......
Trip To Damascus
Fear is the great progenitor of anger, And fear finds ever nourishment in hunger ; I did not know that all my crushing fury Was born of nothing more than bitter envy And that I......
A Starling Flock The Movement Of A Starling Flock Across
a field might be described as a promenade of starlings, although most of the time, in their eagerness, they run. One can only guess at the amount of food they obtain in a field,......
Music
DURING a week of not outstandingly rewarding concerts I have been twice reminded of the different pace at which the language of music develops in different epochs ; or, as an......
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