2 APRIL 1948, page 14

The Gate

Is the moon in the pond As real as the moon in the sky ? Is the gleam on the gate beyond As real as Or the hush As the owl'i cry ? H. H. BASHFORD.......

A Partridge Farm Some Years Ago A Partridge Farm Was

brought into being—by the LC.I.—to increase the stock of this most interesting bird. Quite apart from its prime object, which presumably was to increase the use of cartridges by......

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Country Life

WHEN I said something to an old type of agricultural worker about the beauty of the weather, his response was : " We shall want our greatcoats in June." However, after this......

Hawks And Game On The General Subject Of Hawks And

game some peculiarly interesting evidence has been supplied by one of the small but by no means extinct bands of hawkers. One expert was called in to defend our airmen. Birds......

Music

SINCE 1893, when Verdi's Falstaff appeared, the fat knight has had -a good musical sun. Elgar started in 1913 with his symphonic study, and then came Hoist with his folk-song......

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In The Garden

A country gardener said to me the other day: " So long as you've plenty of carrots and onions you can always make a stew." It would be wrong, of course, to belittle green......