The Armchair Treasure Hunt Club
Competition 22 - win a new membership

Competition No 22 - By Ann Hughes

This competition closed on 30 June 2005. We received no correct entries.

FIND THE NAMES OF ANOTHER FOUR BRITISH AUTHORS & POETS

1. A tricky Shepherd, in the borders arrived,
   Drank at a favourite meeting place,
   When he was alive!
   
   ANSWER: James Hogg. ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, Selkirks
   
   
2. A sea son born at the start of a mile road,
   Which now ends in a place,
   To muse on the old.
   
   ANSWER: Charles Dickens. Dickens Museum, Portsea, Hants
   
   
3. His last volume unconditionally did surrender,
   Midst the flowers and the sun,
   Of a manor set in splendour.
   
   ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh. Manor House, Combe Florey, Somerset
   
   
4. Within this castle the wolf will not be seen,
   Look for darkness of an isle,
   And where ‘royal’ names have been.
   
   ANSWER: Victoria Sackville-West. Sissinghurst Castle, Kent
   

See also the previous competition.

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