The shouts and laughter ringing through the merry fields, on the fine autumn morning, may have led us into this discourse upon youth: the very air was full of laughter, and when Fanny let the kite string go by accident, the rapture grew intense.

Mr. Sandford had now but little use for Fletcher's services, except to look after his debtors,to know who was "shinning" in the street, or "kite-flying" with accommodation-paper.

To provide a sufficient supply of kite balloons for the work of the Grand Fleet.

"More kites, eh? Reg'lar kite-factory gone and got itself lost," he remarked finally, when he had appropriated Charley's bundle.

The air adapted to a Violin: a fellow flying a kite-fiddle in a field.

Black and white is a very common bird colouring; black crows with white collars follow our camps and bivouacs to pick up scraps, and the brown fork-tailed kite hawks for garbage and for the friendly lizard too, in the hospital compound.

Round this he passed the kite line a couple or three times, and then gave the end to Jessop to bend on to the bridle of the kite, and so he had all ready for paying out to the wreck.

"Keep a sharp lookout for the b'ys," the kite-maker cautioned them.

To this the towing-ropes were attached, on the kite principle, so that the greatest resisting surface was presented to the water.

All the other entries were the regulation kite shape.

They were compelled to replenish their kite-supply often; for whenever an accident occurred, and the string broke, or a ducking kite dragged down the rest, or the wind suddenly died out, their kites fell into the Pit, from which place they were unrecoverable.

"We love you for yourself and it wouldn't make any difference to us if you had a title as long as a kite tail!

The speed that we would travel before the wind by this means was marvelous, but we tried the kite trick once too often.

At bed time that night, Joe White begged his school-fellow's pardon for entangling his kite twine, and went to bed very humble and grateful, and with a little love and kindness dawning, which made his rest sweeter and his dreams happier.

All we had to do was to keep our bodies below Grim's kite affair, out of the probable line of fire.

Green parrots are screaming in the tamarind trees and overhead a white-throated Brahmany kite wheels motionless in the vivid blue.

The sea-anchor was bridled something like a kite, so that it bit into the water as a kite bites into the air, but with a difference.

The essayist says: "An attempt to enumerate these superstitious beliefs would be useless, but the following would illustrate the villagers' deep regard for them, It is a good omen to hear a bell ring, an ass bray, or a Brahmini kite cry, when starting out to see a married woman whose husband is alive.