An 1814-1831 Diary.
A facetious and most rural MS., composed by an Oxford- shire gravedigger, has been unearthed (with apologies for the word) by that breezy little green quarterly, the Countryman.......
Weather Eccentricities.
Some of the smaller attributes of the strange and delicious weather that broke on Bank Holiday are worth recording. If you walked across any fields or commons in the evening you......
A Rljral Ideal.
Here is the gist of a recent discussion on the best site for a county home :— HOUSE-HUNTING. " Where in the world, if we had our will, would you wish Our home . to be : By a......
Country Life
NORFOLK RcresTroxs. Sir John Russell, director of Rothamsted Experimental station, who has a genius for generalization in epitome, has admirably summarized in a new form the......
Gardeners' Doggerel.
Here are two doggerel couplets, translated from the German, giving rules for the gardener's observance about this date. One gardener, at any rate, who has faithfully observed......
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TIDDLERS. Not only boys will delight in the suggestion that the London ponds should be restocked with " tiddlers." Not long ago I was calling on the owner of a country estate,......
Coincident Prophets.
In talking weather—a subject no Englishman can avoid— I was surprised to fend a close and surprising coincidence between the rural labourer and the Victoria Street specialist.......
The Muntjac.
The mystery of an unidentified animal seen from time to time on a Hertfordshire estate has been solved, at least in all probability. The " fox with kind eyes " is thought to be......
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