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    Town & Country Notebook

    Aug 24, 2022 3 minutes

    Quiz of the week

    1) Who wrote the poem Lochinvar?

    2) Sphagnum is a genus of which group of plants?

    3) In Morse code, what letter is represented by one dash?

    4) Which noblemen hold the highest hereditary titles in the British peerage?

    5) Which playing card is known as the curse of Scotland?

    Word of the week

    Butterboy (noun) A novice, particularly among taxi drivers

    100 years ago COUNTRY LIFE in August 26, 1922

    YOUR correspondent ‘Aniseed’, writing in COUNTRY LIFE of the 12th instant, says he never remembers hearing a hind

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