The same long, all-day storms of the so-called Rainy Season in California, that give rain to the lowlands, give dry frosty snow to the mountains.

And for myself, did a friendly old gentleman offer me lollypops and all-day-suckersfor so did the glittering baubles present themselves across the footlightslike Aladdin I, too, would not have squinted too closely on his claim.

Gladly I would have gone off with him on an all-day picnic toward the Chinese mountains.

An all-day trip is pretty tiresome.

' AN ALL-DAY ATTACK "At 3:40 a.m. an attack was made on our right.

All-day long they fly after the ships, sometimes even coming over the deck near the passengers.

So we had an all-day wait near the primitive little railway station.

What I can do, and do overdo, is to walk, but deadly long are the daysthese summer all-day days, with but a half hour's candlelight and no firelight.

The children begged to be allowed to accompany them, and as the day was unusually fine and the lake almost without a ripple they were given a holiday and allowed the privilege of an all-day outing with these two trusty and experienced men.

Perhaps her family had doubted her story that she was going off on an all-day motor trip with a friend?

Visits among the women folk were all-day affairs; if the husbands were invited, it would be of an evening, and the call then would last till midnight with a supper at ten.

The all-day guests began to put on their wraps, word was sent to bring up the car, and all was bustle and happy words and Merry Christmases in abundance.

Daily, when our lessons were over, we had plenty of fun; long walks and rides, rides on a lively pony, who found small children most amusing, and on which the coachman taught us to stick firmly, whatever his eccentricities of the moment; delightful all-day picnics in the lovely country round Charmouth, Auntie our merriest playfellow.

It was a frank and naïve indulgence of long-starved senses, and there was in it a great resemblance to the rolling eyed ecstasy of a schoolboy smacking his lips over an all-day sucker.

"Then it's you," he exulted, "who is going to be my fellow traveler to-morrow!" XI Ben found, rather as he had expected, that the girl was not at all embarrassed by the knowledge that they were to have a lonely all-day ride together.

XIX After the manner of backwoods fathers Jeffery Neilson had offered no objections to his daughter's all-day excursion with Ben.

In a paper in which she recorded some of her aspirations, she wrote: "Let my life be an all-day looking to Jesus.

Corney Delaney, as Evan named the majestic gray goatof firm disposition blended with a keen sense of humourthat father gave the boys last spring and who has been their best beloved ever since, has for many days been left in duress with the calves in the stack-yard, where the all-day diet of cornstalks is fatally bulging his once straight-fronted figure.

Gladys has gone on an all-day boat ride.

One person understands it one way, and thinks the bird says 'all-day whittling, whittling, whittling!'

When the right day came, without a sign of ugly squalls or of an equally unfortunate calm, Olaf borrowed a largo cat-boat, and after stowing away the lunch hamper, that was always a 'must be' for an all-day trip, the boat almost flew out of the little bay and up the sound before the breeze that came with the morning tide.

On the 4th they lost twenty-eight men killed and ninety-eight wounded from a gruelling all-day shell-fire and stone-walling.

Daily, when our lessons were over, we had plenty of fun; long walks and rides, rides on a lovely pony, who found small children most amusing, and on which the coachman taught us to stick firmly, whatever his eccentricities of the moment; delightful all-day picnics in the lovely country round Charmouth, Auntie our merriest playfellow.

"Intermittent strafes we are used to, but this all-day performance seems to indicate that the Boche is really getting down to it for once.

CHAPTER II WHEN SKIES WERE BLUE There was one more passenger, making three, in our first-class compartment in the all-day express train from Cologne to Berlin after it left Hanover.