Poetry.
THE BONNY IVY TREE. A WELSH IDYLL. IN hand I took a heavy hook, And down my rocky garden strode To strike free from a larch tree The Ivy's heavy load. But as, to prove its edge......
The Ways Of The Ostrich. [to The Editor Of The
SPECTATOR.] Sut,When spending a winter in Algeria many years ago I - was given the following account of ostrich hunting by the 'great Arab sheiks of the Sahara. This hunting, I......
Sin, — This Extract From Jock Of The Bushveld May Throw...
• on this question :— " And the ostrich is not the fool it is thought to be—burying its head in the sand ! Knowing how the long stem of a neck will catch the eye, it lays it......
[to The Editor Of The Spectator.] Sut,—your...
the popular belief that the ostrich puts. his head in the sand in order to hide himself is -most entertaining. But what is his authority for stating that it has been universally......
Irish Conversation.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Among the contents of the Spectator for January 5th are included a short account of Eliezer ben Yehudah, and an article entitled " Irish......