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UNPRETENDING AND PRETENDING SPORTS

... George Noble, who walked six miles to the Borough Market under the hour, with three hundred asparagus in a basket on his head for a bet of three guineas (which asparagus possibly Pierce Egan would have described in the days of ultra-slang literature, with three ...

THE MAGAZINES FOR JULY

... a continuation of Mr. Proctor's fascinating description of Some Marvels in lelegraphy, a curiously interesting paper on Asparagus, A Representative Lady of Last Century (LadyMary Wortley Montagu) and Discovery of Lamb's Poetry for Children,' a paper ...

CIRCULAR NOTES

... the sinuous stream In May old hens to guard their ducklings cackle, And turkey poults attain the stage supreme. Perfect asparagus is, and vernal spinach, And tiny whitebait throng the Thames at Greenwich. UXDEll the head of Doggy Dishes Mrs. Brassey, ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC

... locality. It is getting on towards spring. In CoVent (Jardetl a few pale and edl-ly potatoes llave shown them selves, and even asparagus of a feebie growth has struggled into existence. It is the time of pairing amongst birds and humans most especially female ...

A BEAN FEAST

... bean feasts, then the bean feast is a misnomer. All that the garden produces if you please, from humble spinach to proud asparagus, but no beans this is our experience of bean feasts. However, not to cavil, who has not seen such an episode as our artist ...

ROUND THE HEALTH EXHIBITION

... every shape and colour, cucumbers of various sizes, melons in all their luscious appearance, broccolis and cauliflowers, asparagus and cabbage, peas, beans, and potatoes in all their varied types, and many others. Besides some samples of ensilage from ...

ANGLING: A TRILOGY OF THE MAYFLY

... bushes in the hedgerows, curved under their weight of hawthorn blossom, or how the lambs made us think of mint sauce and asparagus. The river gained, we entered the Major's preserves (indicated by a notice board fulminating the direst penalties on all ...

THE WOOLHOPE CLUB'S FUNGUS FORAYS

... lactarius deliciosus, which Sir J. Smith calls the most delicious mushroom known clavariae, tied in little bundles like asparagus and sprinkled with cream the oyster fungus, hydnum rcpandum, and others were most likely submitted to the guests. Being unable ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: LA BÉARNAISE

... considered to occupy about the same position to the music as is held gastronomically by the humble round of toast towards the asparagus served up upon it. Indeed, a well-authenticated anecdote respecting an equally well-known Anglo-Hibernian singer would seem ...

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MAPPIN & WEBB'S

... MAPPIN WEBB'S MAPPIN WEBB'S LATEST NOVELTY IN ELECTRO PLATE. ASPARAGUS CRADLE AND TONGS, £1 Is. complete. PACKED AND SENT FREE BY PARCELS POST TO ANY ADDRESS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, LONDON WAREHOUSES-- 158, OXFORD ST., W., and 18, POULTRY, E.C. MANUFACTORIES ...