He must beware of the red-herring across the trail.

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RED-CURRANT AND RASPBERRY TART. 1267.

Blood-red gold.

The yellow and orange poppies predominated, but there were acres of wild mustard throwing countless numbers of gorgeous saffron spikes skyward, and vistas of blue carconnes, white daisies and blood-red delandres.

There is something unspeakably soothing, I imagine, in the swing of an elephant as he crashes through jungle, beating it out for tigers; something consolatory to wounded feelings in the grin of a heavy old tusker, lumbering along, half sulky, half defiant, winking a little blood-red eye at the pig-sticker, pushing his Arab to speed with a loose rein ere he delivers the meditated thrust that shall win first spear.

Suddenly, while the Privy-Councillor lay back in his chair pulling thoughtfully at his cigar, there was a bright, blood-red flash, a dull report, and a man's short agonized cry.

To his case the parodist of the period, in a moment of inspiration, adapted Burgon's beautiful couplet, saying or singing: "Match me such marvel, save in college port, That rose-red liquor, half as old as Short.

For the first time in history the aristocrats and the monarchists, the Conservative Republicans and the Clericals walked in procession behind the blood-red rag.

In his shapely, white, bejewelled fingers he held a blood-red rose, and as his eyes fell upon the most beautiful face he had ever beheld, he caught his breath and held the rose to his face to hide his devouring glances as she swept by him under the soft light cast by the sconces above her head.

But every ghost of boyhood's dream By Nature's magic power is laid To sleep beneath this blood-red stream.

Occasionally he uttered a low menacing growl that showed his gleaming white teeth and blood-red tongue, from which the saliva fell in great drops.

And Buddha said that a man must look on everything as illusioneven light and colourthe time-worn bronze of metal against blue-green of pine and pale emerald of bamboothe lemon sash of the girl in the cinnamon dress, with coral pins in her hair, leaning against a block of weather-bleached stoneand, last, the spray of blood-red azalea that stands on the pale gold mats of the tea-house beneath the honey-coloured thatch.

"Here it is red," said Horrocks, "blood-red vapour as red and hot as sin; but yonder there, where the moonlight falls on it, and it drives across the clinker-heaps, it is as white as death.

" They spurr'd along until the sun sank low, And by the way arose the lonely tree, Mere sat the Dervise, rheumy-eyed and old Blood-red the western skythe clouds back waved,

But several of the wounded red-coats were taken.

"I drink to our red allies," he said, slowly drained his glass till but a color remained in it, then dipped his finger in the dregs and drew upon the white table-cloth a blood-red cross.