Country Life
THE old method of hay-making—with hand- rakes and little ricks of hay set about the field to be alternately drenched with rain and dried by the sun—was wasteful in every way. It......
A Prize Of £5, Which May Be Divided, Is O F Fered
for the most surprising, interesting, or amusing 'Earliest Recollection,' which may be personal and genuine (but so far unpub- lished) or pure fiction, fathered on any prominent......
Dog Days
Everyone who has fished regularly knows the dead days of July and August when trout go off their food, or to be correct, when they, will no longer rise to the fly with the......
Old W. Met Me On The Road. He Was Carrying
a bundle of hazel rods that, from their length, I knew must have come from the heart of a particular copse. He stopped and mentioned that he had been planning to get sticks for......
Vegetable Care
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He Thought He Saw : .
The usual prize was offered for a six-line poem on the lines of Lewis Carroll's verses in Sylvie and Bruno beginning: 'He thought he saw .. . On this occasion he thought he saw......
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