Little Pariahs
It is a subject of continuous interest to watch the urban children in their new environment. The actual organisers of the billeting in the villages necessarily see the worse......
Late Swallows
Swallows were feeding their fledglings in a Hertfordshire cottage garden on October 8th, which is the latest date in the annals of this cottage where swallows have been watched......
A Hackneyed Road
Words change themselves in country speech in curious ways not explained in such beautiful theories as Grimm's law. The field where I listened to this encomium on oat flower as a......
A Scorned Medicine
One of the hedges almost alongside the Icknield Way in South Oxfordshire was much prized a few years ago in the locality for its production of a certain black or very deep......
Flower And Flight
Flock, ffight, flower—may they all mean much the same thing, at least in local speech? The question is suggested by a recent experience in the use of rural words. A youngish......
Country Life
Happy Exiles Extremely cheerful accounts reach me from the extremities of our island of the influence of evacuation in imparting the rural bias about which our educational......
In The Garden
It is alleged that rats and mice cost the nation 70 million pounds a year. How this particular figure is arrived at I have no idea, but at a time when all waste is to be avoided......
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