Vogue mid-month collection.

(In Mid-week pictorial, Oct. 24, 1936) © 22Oct36; B315678. Erskine Caldwell (A); 8Nov63; R325136.

Even on this hot mid-summer day, the heat was less where he was than in any other part of the building.

I. The Lord my Pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a Shepherd's Care; His Presence shall my Wants supply, And guard me with a watchful Eye; My Noon-day Walks he shall attend, And all my Mid-night Hours defend.

Hence all of the burning ghats along the river bank are busy from daylight until mid-day disposing of the bodies of those who have died during the previous eighteen or twenty hours.

Yet in this aspect now I could detect no indication whatsoever that he was about to round into mid-season form.

A marble-wrought sarcophagus reposed Unharmed 'mid fragments of these fabled creatures; Its lidless depth a dead man's form inclosed, The pain-wrung face now calm with softened features.

"Look! yonder stand in mid-day's glare

The sunlight could not penetrate the roofed archway of murmuring leaves; through the gray aisles of the forest men walked always in a kind of mid-day gloaming.

So I went on my way in the mid-afternoon down hill to what in my heart I knew to be Bob-up-and-down on the far side of which lies and climbs Harbledown and the hospital of St Nicholas.

And pale on those same slopes, a boy A stormer, bled in noon-day glare; No aid the Blue-coats then could bring, He cried to them who nearest were, And out there came 'mid howling shot and shell A daring foe who him befriended well.

In the pleasant mid-day light under the maples, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Cornish were hurrying toward the railway station.

For this reason, a mid-day nap is often effective, or a short nap after the evening dinner.

The sun was shining with slanting mid-afternoon rays down among the trees by the creek.

"Hath he overeaten at mid-day refection, and so is not able to sleep, that he cannot let honest men enjoy greater peace than himself?"

She was a dried-up-looking poor body, your sister-in-law; I al'ays did say so, ye mid remember.

Here was interred with ceremony of waxen taper and mid-night requiem, the noble founder of this dilapidated fane, Sir Walter L'Espec, beneath that wreck of pillar and architrave and those carved remains of the chisel's achievementhe who deemed that the sepulchre "Should canopy his bones till doomsday; But all things have their end.

His secret mid-night ride down through the Valley Gate to the southwest of Jerusalem and thence eastward along the Hinnom Valley to the point where it joins the Kidron, and from there up the valley, gave him most accurate information regarding conditions.

Or how fair Magdalen 'mid desert sands Wore out in prayer her lonely blissful years, Watched by bright angels, till her modest tresses Wove to her pearled feet their golden shroud.

Weal, woe, become mere phantasy; He hungers 'mid satiety; Be it joy, or be it sorrow, He postpones it till the morrow; Of the future thinking ever, Prompt for present action never.

[Illustration: A Mid-section of the Calle Mendez-Vigo, Mayaguez.]

The river glided softly, the wind was dead, the mid-afternoon silence was over the thickets.

This is the Sierra mid-summer thunder-storm reduced to its lowest terms.

Methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beampurging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance.' 11. 7, 8.

Quails, too, seek the shade during the heat of the day about tepid pools in the channels of the larger mid-river streams.