6 AUGUST 1954, page 12

When The Water Level Of The Stream Falls, The Force

of the current is reduced and, in spite of the flow from one level to another, there are pools where a sort of stagnation takes place. Between one rainfall and the next a......

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Headmasters In Conference

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 231 Report by D.. R. Peddy The BBC recently broadcast a series of programmes under the title 'Schooling 1954.' Com- petitors were asked to suppose that......

Patches Of Grass

We have in all, in our small garden, five patches of grass. They are on the slope of a hill and, with the exception of one patch, I put them all to grass myself. They are not......

Of All The Dogs I Have Ever Seen In Action,

the movements of a pointer please me most. It is perhaps the *ay they tread and lope from one clump of undergrowth to another and the way they carry their tails until the moment......

Spectator Competition No. 234 Set By Allan ' 0. Waith

An American ballad, 'The Big Rock Candy Mountains,' gives a picture of life in a tramp's utopia: 'In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks, And the little......