25 AUGUST 1923, page 15

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sta,—.i Heard Recently Of

a boy who was required to translate cave can em. Moved possibly by memories of marred har- monies, he interpreted it as if it were the considerate warning of a prospective......

A Cat And Fox Fight.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The following curious experience may interest your readers. One morning last week I was awakened about 5 a.m. by wild shrieks under my......

Bird Parasites.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—We always have a large colony of swifts in this town, the stone slates of many of the roofs affording them convenient places for nesting.......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—old John Had Been

suddenly "taken bad" and the rector had been called in. After ministering to him, he came down to the kitchen and asked the wife what was the matter with her old man. "I doan't......

Some Parochial Stories.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Sunday School.—(1) I called on Mrs. Z. about her son's irregular attendance, and her reply was : "I calls it a shame his not coming to......

Smollett's Letters.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Any of your readers who know the present whereabouts of letters of Tobias Smollett, the eighteenth-century novelist and historian, will......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sir,—my Brother, A...

of the Church of Scotland in a rural parish, was thus accosted by a woman parishioner during his visitation on a weekday. "Yon was a very queer text you preached from on......

Poetry.

EROS. BENEATH a fitather Asian sky, I leapt to birth. No star, that bows her body over earth, Ever more reft than I. None hearkened my birth cry, For Nothing gave me birth.......

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