A row of icicles hung from the roof of the corner store, irregular and stained from the shingles above, like an ugly set of ill-kept teeth, dripping disconsolately on the sidewalk below, and making there a bumpy blotch of unsightly ice!

So they both went slowly down, And walked about the town With a cheerful bumpy sound As they toddled round and round; And everybody cried, As they hastened to their side, "See!

" Saying which, Bellew pointed to a certain spot where the grass looked somewhat uneven, and peculiarly bumpy, and, bidding Small Porges get to work, went round to the other side of the great tree.

I've landed on every sort of ground, from smooth velvety turf to bumpy stuff that almost joggled me to pieces; but I never before tried dropping on an ice-floe!"

They walked up the bumpy dirt road, one on each side of the grass strip in the middle.

CHAPTER II MISS PANNEY The Witton family, distant relatives of Miss Panney, with whom she had lived for many years, resided on a farm in the hilly country above Thorbury, and when Mrs. Tolbridge had rattled through the town, she found the country road very rough and badhard and bumpy in some places, and soft and muddy in others; but Buckskin was in fine spirits and pulled her bravely on.

And this, with fast bowling and the bumpy nature of the pitch, is a very difficult thing to do.

" While on the subject of cricket, for some time past we have made experiments of all sorts of cricket grounds, and have come to the conclusion that the following is the best recipe to prepare a pitch on a dry and bumpy ground.

The reason that nine out of ten village grounds are bad and bumpy is that they are not rolled soon enough after rain or after being watered.

The heroes of old, "When Bird and Beldham, Budd, and such as they, Lord Frederick, too, once England's chief and flower, Astonished all who came to see them play," those "scorners of the ground" and of pads and gloves doubtless displayed more pluck on their rough, bumpy grounds than is now called forth in facing the attack of Kortright, Mold, or Richardson.

Many grounds are somewhat rough and bumpy to field on, beautifully smooth though they look from the pavilion.

There is a wonderful view from Bumpy Peak, over the sea, and right away to far-off lands.

Murray thought that when the expedition had caught a chamois it might turn into engineers prospecting for the building of a road up to Bumpy Peak, so that the soldiers might march up, and look out over the sea, and seevery far offthe fringes of the East that they had conquered, when they were young and not tired of War...." She broke off and looked at Kew.

My pilot was bringing her from Town one afternoon last weektook the Dorking-Leith Hill air-way, you know, always bumpy over thereand

Sylvia and Bradford, being fleet of foot, had no difficulty in following, but Martin and Miss Lavinia had rather a bumpy time of it.

Well, cheerio, old thingweather looks dudyou're going to have it bumpy in the morning, if you're on a pup.

But even these had much to tell of the passings for nearly two centuries and a half up and down this household highway: of the masterful tread of spur-shod boots, the dancing of the belle's slim-slippered feet, the pompous double steps of bumpy baby shoes, the gouty stump of old grandsire, and the faithful shamble of the black boy at his heels.

Tea in front of the dâk bungalow, in a corner blazing with "gold mohurs" and rosy oleanders, while the driver and the syce harnessed the lean pair of horses, a final visit to the Kutab and the great arch, and we fared back over the eleven bumpy miles that lay between us and Delhi.

Your pet fast bumpy ones, wide of the wicket, Perhaps look showy, but they are not Cricket.

Do not select those that are very large in circumference; a rough melon with a bumpy surface is the best.