Spectator Competition No. 240
. . Competitors are asked to note that Oscar Wilde's Tile Street house is requisitioned by Chelsea Borough Council, and not (as stated last week) by the LCC.......
Perch Fishing
Perch are the small boy's fish, I have always been told. Anyone can catch them, and I suppose that where perch arc present in a river or lake it takes no great skill, and anyone......
Sharpening Stones
Bob, who knows the hills well, having worked in remote places first as a shepherd boy and then on water schemes, told me about a place where I could find sharpening stone. The......
Country Life
SOME time ago I was talking to a shepherd who gave me details of a few of the markings of sheep employed by owners of herds that range freely on the mountains. arc gathered up......
Spectator Competition No. 241
Set by Sid Poshbloke Jones The Spectator recently published an article on The Cockney Renaissance (Spectator, August 27), a literary movement comparable in importance to the......
Care Of Leeks
The leek is a vegetable more h g ught of in the north than in the south perhaps. The northerner often uses it in broth, and farming families used to be fond of chopped leek in......
The Eye-rhyme Clerihew
Competitors were invited, for a prize of £5, to submit sets of three clerihews whose rhymes are eye-rhymes and whose subjects are any writers, "ging or dead. For example: The......
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