Company Notes

By CUSTOS d. SOME New Yorkers stayed away . . , from the Queen's arrival at th e itil . Battery, having more urgent things to do. These were the brokers in near-by Wall Street......

Refinement

'Well, it's like China tea. You crooks your little finger when you drinks it an' tries to look as if you never dug your elbow in anybody at a jumble sale, refined-like.'......

J Ack:daws Jackdaws Are, To Me At Any Rate, Much

more in- teresting birds than mere crows. They are enter- Prising, busier about their daily lives altogether than the greater corvidx. They have a restlessness that marks the......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL 01 -o Boa, who lives at the back of beyond but has electricity in his cottage. stopped me the other day to ask if I had seen something on television. I had to......

Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 124 Specially contributed by D. BRUMA (The Hague) BLACK (10 men) WHITE (7 men) WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's......

Trout's Diet

When I first used to fish for trout, with a piece of brown line and short length of gut on my spruce- pole rod, my bait was a red-streaked worm dug at the midden's edge.......