Anemones In Bloom

Anemones, St. Brigid variety, blooin on the lower rockery. Since I put in these corms some years ago, they have changed their time for blooming. Now they have flowers at......

Country Life

OYSTER-CATCHERS are birds of the tide-line. Their " deep, deep " cry is familiar there. When I heard the cry while walking along the lane I was puzzled. It came from a garden,......

The Stream In Spate The Stream Was In Spate That

runs through the gully in the glen. Now the place is quiet once more. The hard, unmuffled noise of the flood has died. The water was brown and now it is clear, and it is hard to......

The Timber Trade

A sort of liMber, drawn by a powerful engine, came cautiously down the hill. It was loaded with several whole trees from which the branches had been trimmed. Back there, beyond......

The Fishing Cat

Three perch I brought from a mountain lake and put in a glass tank have thriven and become quite tame. They are fed on worms every few days, and if they show no signs of growing......

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