His carefully dressed hair concealed the ravages of time and on the quarter-deck of a first-rate his attire and manners were suited to a field-day in the park.

Footnote 2: It will be remembered that on field-days Murat had adopted a hat and feathers of a most ridiculous kind, and that have become proverbial.

"Steady, lads, steady," shouted the officers, and as regularly as if on field-day, the English troops advanced.

The only Lakerim men on the Kingston team were Tug, the chief, who had been a great runner of 440-yard races, and Sawed-Off, who had won the half-mile event on various field-days.

Patting his charger's neck at the very next field-day, Bearwarden told himself there was much to live for still; that it would be unsoldierlike, unmanly, childish, to neglect duty, to wince from pleasure, to turn his back on all the world had to offer, only because a woman followed her nature and changed her mind.

"Pultowa's day" was one of the grand field-days of history.

He, however, only attended one field-day, and was taken into the Horse Infirmary again on March 8, very lame.

Ward: field-days twice a week; ammunition supplied gratis; liberal prizes to the best marksmen.

We shall not dwell upon the multitudinous panics and flights that happened on both sides in the Great Civil War, but come at once to what took place on the grand field-days of that contest,Long-Marston Moor and Naseby.

He had unshipped his knife and was offering his sergeant long odds on scoring first "pink," when our two squadron trumpeters trotted out from a near-by coppice and solemnly puffed "Cease Fire"for all the world as if it was the end of a field-day on the Plain and time to trot home to tea.

There were certain days, which we called field-days, when all their resources were called out, and they seemed hurrying in swift battalions to some great contest or grand coronation scene.

I can't help telling one more story about this great field-day, though it is the most wanton and irrelevant digression.

The Peers were to have had another field-day, for Lord SELBORNE had put down a motion calling attention to the alleged sale of honours.