... Tickencote, Thorpe by \Vater, and by stone manorial houses, and sometimes farmhouses, that have that air of timeless prosperity and clean beauty that is t ypical of the richest of Cotswold architecture. There are barns here, with high arched entrances, ...

... ScoTT-MARTIN. THE RITUAL OF THE STO E CURLEW m,- The excellent photographs of the stone curlew at the nest in COUNTRY LIFE for M arch I recall to my memory a pair of these birds which I watched from a hide for many hours in the early summer of 1932. In this ...

... WHALE-BONE ARCH StR-The whale-bone arch has often been mentioned elsewhere, and the size remarked upon. At 'vVassell Wood, Bewdley, there is an arch big enough for a carriage and pair, to say nothing of the coachman and his whip, to drive u nder. The arch is ...

... would say : I wonder if those birds will fly through the arch or go over the bridge? and the unsuspecting person to whom the remark was made would at once say: Oh, they'll go through the arch, of course, to which the other would reply : I bet you ...