Now, my lads, for a day's fishing ; but first I must tell you a little about angling, and the requisites necessary for the sport. In a rude state of society, angling was resorted to from necessity. This occupation soon became an amusement for those who had leisure enough to spend time in it, as it affords to most people much pleasure. We find occasional allusions to this pursuit among the Gr…
IT was a bright morning in the month of August^ when a lad of some fifteen years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after party of armed men riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham. A casual observer glancing at his curling hair and bright, open face, as also at the fashion of his dress, would at once have assigned to him a purely Saxon origin; but a keener eye would have detec…
The stories collected in this little book have for the most part been taken from the pages of the magazine, “Messages of Love.” Many of these stories were originally written for this magazine, either by Mrs. Willis or different members of her family, and are those things which they have seen and heard. Their first object is to present Christ, and the way of salvation through Him : but bo…
There it is in Cookbook short'hand but who'd ever guess that those sixty-eight little words and symbols could lead the way to so much sheer deliciousness? For there's a pie, lady, as is a pie. As every trencherman who dangles his short legs or stretches his long ones under your banquet board is going to testiry
FOR several miles the counties of Oxford and Warwick, are bounded by a narrow straight roadway. From the "Cross Hands" to the Edge Hills, this road follows the northern boundary of the Cotswold country. To the north west lie the fertile valleys and plains of the Warwickshire Feldon country, whilst eastwards the ground gently slopes to the valley of the Cherwell. The ridge thus divides the water…
There are one or two points in the letter of your esteemed correspondent " Lambda " in last week's issue which call for some observation before the subject of the recent Revision of the Ritual is allowed to rest. Being one of an abnormal class which comes under two categories in your correspondent's letter, namely, " blaming the Conference for its insufficient action," and being at the same tim…