WINTER 



Countrymen often display a dry humour all their own. 

 At a shooting party we fell in with a beater, into 

 whose charge one of the guns had given a 

 well-filled cartridge-bag. Every now and 

 again we noticed that the beater thrust his 

 hand into the bag, and regarded the cartridges which 

 he pulled out with a puzzled look. We inquired the 

 reason, and it transpired that some of the cartridges 

 were loaded with No. 5 shot, and some with No. 5J, 

 and that the beater had been asked to sort them by 

 their owner, a gun of indifferent merits. He said, 

 in continuation of his story : " He did tell I he can't 

 get on nohow wi' sich mixed tackle. / reckon if 

 there weren't no shots in 'em at all 'twouldn't make 

 ne'er a marsel o' difference." 



Every oak-tree teems with life. Of insects alone five 

 hundred species look mainly to the oak for support. 



When the tree grows to the age of fruitful- 

 The Oak nesg w ] ien sixty or seventy years have 



passed over its head then its population is 



increased tenfold. Here is a reason for the incredible 



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