Latinities
In a country cottage (whose windows look on a garden very bright with chrysanthemum and gladiolus) live an old couple who are great readers of the newspaper, especially in war-......
Allowable . Booty What May Be Done And What Not In
these strange country places is utterly unknown. Into a little rough field of mine running along an almost unfenced lane I saw, on an earlier occasion, a tiny tot of a girl......
A Lapse In Scent
We all know the strange fact that musk, once a proverb for sweetness of smell, is now a scentless plant. A Gloucester- shire Rector suggests to me the fear that laurel is going......
Thorough Thieves
Where the urban child excels is in thoroughness. One had thought that the country boy knew something of the delicate and gentle art of securing apples from his neighbour's......
Country Life
Plant and Butterfly I have received many charming corroborations of the preference of autumnal butterflies for particular plants, and it seems that Admirals, very rare in some......
Urban Naturalists
Our country folk continue to wonder at the urban children that have crowded into their midst. It is noticed that the visitors, though much further advanced in knowledge of the......
In The Garden
First beauty, then use. The autumn crocuses, though the lawn where they grow was mowed very late, are flowering to perfection, and have continued to multiply. The later "......
War-time Taxes
Every sort of player and of sportsman is discussing the dubious patriotism- of pursuing his amusement ; and one un- expected but very sensible suggestion has come from a West......
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