Alpine Diufts.
Only elder people remember other days when traffic was suspended, and roads quite closed ; and even the oldest cannot quite parallel out of their widest memories some scenes of......
Country Life
FENS IN FROST. Is it because bearing frosts have been rare in this generation that English people are so ignorant of the charm of the Fen country in winter ? Once you have......
Littleport, The Next Station To Ely, The Last Island Refuge
of Hereward the Wake, is better known than the Huntingdon- shire Fens, and may be called the H.Q. of Fen skating, because of the frequency of spacious floods. But even a......
` The Christmas Rose."
Once again " the Christmas rose " has deceived the critics. One of them asks why, if flowers are so much desired and so dear at Christmas, this " rose " is not more freely......
In The Year 1000 Or Thereabouts Was Written A Dialogue
on country life—some of it is quoted in that "best seller," G. M. Trevelyan's History of England ; and I thought I had dis- covered in it an anticipation of Mr. Hosier's......
Local Newspapers Are Calling More And More Attention To The
frequency of poaching, and some of them emphasize the small- ness of the penalties for those caught red-handed. The sporting magistrate perhaps has a certain fellow-feeling for......
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No one has skated who has not used skates, on the model of ski as a mode of motion, as a method of travelling pleas- antly from place to place. The dykes are as rectangular and......
Where Are The Fieldfares ?
Is it possible that successions of mild winters have altered the habits of some of the birds ? One of the more salient memories of winters of a generation ago is the great......
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