[Footnote 1: This name is given by the French Canadians to the bobolink or rice bunting.

The club house was dressed in bright-colored bunting from veranda rail to ridge pole.

They had a committee to select prizes and open a book for entries, and when the day of the races came they had a judges' boat with gay bunting all over it, and a badly frightened referee and a host of reporters, and police boats to keep order.

The left-fielder followed him, and by knocking a little bunt that buzzed like a top just in front of the plate, managed to agonize his way to first base before Reddy and Heady could field the ball, both of them having jumped for it and reached it at the same time.

As soon as the liner's signal had been read by the vessels of the squadron a wild display of signal bunting swiftly broke out.

In the streets people were singing the Marseillaise, waving tricolored bunting, and hurrahing for the Republic.

But just in front of him was a cheering sight; an armed schooner swung lazily at anchor in the channel, and the wet bunting that drooped listlessly over her stern, revealed the stars and stripes.

Within a week yellow bunting waved from half a score of cottages in and about Paradise.