"Why Trouble to Cook Vegetables" by Eleanor Sinclair Rhode begins "How very"odd to cook vegetables and from her description of how to prepare them raw makes one feel that cooking is indeed odd. Notes on "Wild Life and Tame" are contributed by readers all over the world. From "Pembroke Memories," by Jessie Jeans, one may learn how to make a smokeless fire—'there is neither smoke nor dust; hearths, and even the backs of chimneys are whitened."
Brevity is one of the virtues of articles in "The Countryman" with the result that their variety is amazing. Not the least of the joys provided are the little bits at the bottom of pages—they have an authentic air, For example:
Said the rather tired old man on his deathbed, when a crony asked that his remembrances should be given to parent in heaven, "Well, i; a happens come across un I ull, but a buent goon' shucklin' all over coven arter There is a great deal to be said for the country.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.