One half-holiday afternoon Mugford and Diggory had gone down to Chatford.

"If it is," said "Rats," "we shall lose another half-holiday.

On the village green the boys were playing a grand game of "round ball," for it was a half-holiday.

At which the latter replied haughtily, "My father's a gentleman, and keeps his carriage;" and Mr. William Dobbin retreated to a remote out-house in the playground, where he passed a half-holiday in the bitterest sadness and woe.

Occasionally a snake-eyed aborigine mingled with the throng, gazing in wonder on the scene, or a negro, granted a half-holiday, stood grinning with barbarous delight on what was more sport than punishment in his eyes.

There used to be a half-holiday when Mr. Lamb came, partly because he would force his way into the schoolroom and make seriousness impossible.

he admitted when Sheila had been given a half-holiday and was riding on the black horse beside Hilliard on his Dusty across one of the mountain meadows.

I'll have a half-holiday for once and take you home.

I was accompanied by my neighbour Decros, who gave his donkey on this occasion a half-holiday.

I remember you once spoke of a half-holiday; I questioned you, and I found your idea of a half-holiday was to take the children for a walk and buy them some sweets.

I told my brother of this and he saidEmma out for a half-holiday!

It was our Saturday half-holiday and Henderson and I were driving the stagnation of a week's confinement out of our lungs by a long walk into the country.

POPE, VERLE A. Half-holiday.

POPE, VERLE A. Half-holiday.

The Saturday half-holiday is scarcely so closely observed in rural labour as in urban.

The whole form, except Russell and Owen, shall have an extra lesson every half-holiday; not one of the rest of you will I trust again.

When boxing day came, which was half-holiday for him, he returned to the house at mid-day, carrying with him three mince-pies, which he had felt himself rich enough to buy in honour of the holiday.

Kate determined to find out the truth, and as she had a half-holiday on Saturday, she started on her quest.

"I've a half-holiday coming to me, and really, if I were to take it to-day, no one would care.

I remember you once spoke of a half-holiday; I questioned you, and I found your idea of a half-holiday was to take the children for a walk and buy them some sweets.

I remember you once spoke of a half-holiday; I questioned you, and I found your idea of a half-holiday was to take the children for a walk and buy them some sweets.

Though a good deal exploited by the local railway company as a half-holiday resort, it possesses few attractions for the summer visitor.

He was leaning his arms over the balustrade, and the great red peonies and loose anemones were staring up at him so that he could see down into their central folds; but what is April, and what is a half-holiday, and what indeed is life itself when one has lost perhaps the most excellent top that boy ever spun, and the loudest hummer?

Johnnie replied that it was a half-holiday, and so he thought he would come and call.

A weekly half-holiday for all, employer and employed alike; a fifty-four hours' working week for women and young persons; seats for shop girls, and liberty to use them; sanitary inspection of shops.