Lighthouse Lure The Lighthouses In Many Parts, Especially...
experience the lighthouse on Strumble Head, are very fatal to migrant birds. The losses are due to two causes. Either the birds (especially the shearwater) try to skim over the......
Common Games On A Common In The Home Counties On
Bank Holiday I sa' a golf ball knock out the middle stump of a cricket game flourishing on the edge of " the pretty " ; on the same common were flourishing lawn tennis; rounders......
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Quoits I. saw last week an international competition staged in a pleasant. :Ind Comely English village. Wales and England competed at quoits, that fine old English game. The......
Hearded Wheat I Do Not Know The Statistical Figures, But
my own experience is that a return of favour to the bearded or Rivets wheat is in evidence. This strange and beautiful plant, combining the virtues of wheat and barley, does not......
Welsh Genius The Welshmen Won—of Course. Of Two Sorts Of
competition you always say " of course." The Welsh are almost without rival as throwers of the quoit and as shoers of horses. Shoeing Competitions are still a regular feature of......
Destructive Keepers Among All Our Students Of Birds None Has
made more original observations than Major Buxton ; and when he makes a protest, it merits a wide publicity. He has complained (in The Times) that Norfolk keepers have shot both......
Country Life
Harvest Scenes The English .countryside was seldom more beautiful. In spite of the spread of the machine . (including the monster that cuts, threshes, bags and ploughs all at......
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