On one of the little tables you will note a battledore and shuttlecock, with another thrown upon the floor, as though the player had been suddenly interrupted in the midst of her play.

An old broken battledore, and some shuttlecocks with most of the feathers missing, were on a marble slab in one corner of the hall, which constantly reminded me that there had once been younger inhabitants here than the old lady and her gray-headed servants.

Maud, however, without a hat of any sort, her long, luxuriant, silken, golden tresses covering her shoulders, and occasionally veiling her warm, rich cheek, was exercising with a battledore, keeping Little Smash, now increased in size to quite fourteen stone, rather actively employed as an assistant, whenever the exuberance of her own spirits caused her to throw the plaything beyond her reach.

There Lucy Porter took her place, standing behind the counter, nor thought it a disgrace to thank a poor person who purchased from her a penny battledore [10].

Bad luck had so worked its hand in the moulding of him that he had come to live chiefly in anticipation, and though this bad luck had played battledore and shuttlecock with him, the things which he anticipated were pleasant and beautiful.

At the farthest end of the lawn from the house were some fine trees, under the shelter of which two girls were playing at battledore and shuttlecock, and very well they played too.

I don't mind admitting it played battledore and what's-'is-name with my organisation for a day or two, but out of respect for O'Dwyer, blackguard though he is, I ..." "Oh, so it was O'Dwyer's mule?"

It's like battledore and shuttlecock....

Either we are children, buffeted about by fate and circumstances, with events tossing souls about in an eternal game of battledore and shuttlecock, or else the world is our Father's house, and God standeth within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.

(In Borzoi battledore, Sept. 1945) © 28Sep45; B699063.

(In Borzoi battledore, May 1946) © 9May46; B19351.

(In Borzoi battledore, Mar. 1946)

(In Borzoi battledore, Sept. 1945) © 28Sep45; B699063.

(In Borzoi battledore, May 1946) © 9May46; B19351.

(In Borzoi battledore, Mar. 1946)

" Below, in her own apartments, lay the queen-mother, dying, but listening eagerly for the rush of footsteps overhead, hoping and praying that Henrithe hitherto effeminate Henri who played with his sword as he would with a battledore, and who painted himself like a woman, and put rings in his earswould not prejudice himself at this time in the eyes of Rome by slaying the leader of the church party....

"Battledore and Shuttlecock" is an interior, with a graceful girl playing the game, to the amusement of a young child sitting on a nurse's lap.

"Ah, if I had, you would have slain me long ere this," said I, "for I read you like a child's horn-book that he plays battledore with.

"To-morrow he is to teach me battledore and shuttlecock in the library.

He is to teach me battledore and shuttlecock.

" An hour later she stood opposite the count in the great library, swinging the battledore with grace.

Katherine swung low her battledore and breathed forth: "Let us listen; 'tis sweet, who plays, dost know?" "'Tis St. Mar, a fine fellow; a soldier, duelist and gallant.

When he returned and saw Katherine so surrounded, and his guests engaged at cards and battledore and music, and some in converse as to whether they should ride forth to the chase, he was somehow stirred to think of Constance lying alone in her chamber; and there recurred to him the tale of the night before; 'twas she that loved him.

Cedric and Lady Constance played at battledore and shuttlecock.

BATTLEDORE BARLEY.This is a fine grain, but very tender, and not now in cultivation in this country.