The Confinement On My Weekly Visit To The Farm 1
looked into the shippon where a heifer stood. The floor was strewn with clean straw and a hissing pressure lamp illuminated the scene. The shadows in the corners were dark, but......
Rabbit Habits There Is A Time Of Year When Rabbits
live mainly below ground and another when.they lie out. In September and October, before the wind has a cold bite in it and the land .. begins to sleep, the population of most......
Sponsored Shakespeare
Readers were asked to imagine that the theatre was " sponsored " in the reign of Elizabeth I and to re - write a passage from Hamlet, Macbeth, The Merchant,of Venice or As You......
Chrysanthemum Growing
While the actual culture is too extens:vAa subject to be dealt with in a brief note, a great deal can be achieved in growing chry- santhemums by attention to simple things, such......
Spectator Competition No. 193 Set By Edward Blishen "the...
of Mr. Joseph Conrad is new to us, but it appears to us as if he might become the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago," wrote a reviewer in 1898. Competitors are asked to invent an......
Country Life
A FEW years ago when a relative, borne from South Africa, came to stay with us, often found him sitting beneath the trees in the glen with an expression of great con- tent on......
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