Quiz of the week
1) Which is Britain’s smallest rodent?
2) Which is Britain’s most easterly town?
3) Who hid in an oak tree after the Battle of Worcester?
4) In which (modern-day) country was Handel born?
5) Who was Britain’s longest-serving Prime Minister?
Word of the week
Gasconade (noun) Extravagant boasting
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE
September 23, 1922
I AM sure many of your readers will be interested in a curious freak of Nature I possess, in the shape of a hairless mouse. This is the progeny of a normally coated (Old English black rats), of which you gave an illustration last year, I have now got to breed perfectly true, and I have now a number of these very beautiful and graceful rodents—
