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The Fire Fiend has been very busy of late in various parts of the country. An immense fire, ascribed to an incendiary, devastated the village of Harwell in Berkshire, on......
Blossom-time
Spray pears and apples with lime sulphur to prevent scab which disfigures fruit and retards development. Pears should be sprayed in the white-bud stage; apples when the buds are......
Scarecrows
As our train slowed on its journey up the valley, a woman sitting opposite remarked to her husband how startlingly life-like was a scare- crow in the field. It was a very fine......
A Job On A Farm Part Of A Life-story Overheard
in the village: " Before I went to work on the farm," he said, "I worked as a lad in Aber. . . . Man called Davies had the place. He was always tryin' to please his customers......
On Seeing My Birthplace From A Jet Aircraft
The nursery boast Among the teacups uttered, as the hunt Went squelching over fields of buttered toast: "Some day I'll fly about with magic power. Some day I'll wear a peak cap......
Fleas And Flukes Everyone Who Has Handled Birds Knows That
they have fleas. The starling's nest is a revelation, for they are as untidy and insanitary as any bird, and have numerous ticks. I had often thought that birds might be......
Cinema
Los Olvidados. (Academy.)—La Foire aux Chimeres. (New Gallery.)—High Noon. (Odeon.)—Carbine Williams. (Empire.)—Bugles in the Afternoon. (Warner.) DEPLORABLE as are our own......
Country Life
WALKING home and coming downhill into a little village. I paused a few minutes to take in the map of the countryside defined by lights of cottages, travelling cars and a far-off......
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