Tom had recognised him and gave him a patronising nodTom, a little wretch whom he had cut over the back with a hockey-stick last quarter, and there he was in the centre of the square, rallying round the flag of his county, surrounded by bayonets, cross-belts, and scarlet, the band blowing trumpets and banging cymbalstalking familiarly to immense warriors with tufts to their chins and Waterloo medals.

Her face now was pale and drawn, like that of a hockey centre-forward at a girls' school who, in addition to getting a fruity one on the shin, has just been penalized for "sticks".

Rock Monday and the wake in summer, Shrovings, the wakeful catches on Christmas Eve, the hockey or seed-cake, these he yearly keeps, yet holds them no relics of popery.

Hunting parties were common, cricket and hockey matches were frequent, and in the cold weather, which is our slackest season, fun, frolic, and sport was the order of the day.

In the afternoon there is hockey on horseback, or volunteer drill, with our gallant adjutant putting us through our evolutions.

Exercise in some form or other is essential, and although I am quite ready to admit that games of the strenuous type, such as hockey and lawn tennis, can be and sometimes are overdone, yet the girl of to-day, who enters into and enjoys her game with scarcely less zest than her brother, is, I am convinced, better in health and happier in herself than the girl of the past generation.

Mixed hockey is an abomination; splendid sport absolutely spoiled for both sexes.

This charge was very deliberately brought against hockey for women some little time ago in an influential London journal, and was rightly and promptly answered by a spirited article with illustrations of some well-known lady hockey playersproof positive of the fallacy that hockey damaged their appearance.

This charge was very deliberately brought against hockey for women some little time ago in an influential London journal, and was rightly and promptly answered by a spirited article with illustrations of some well-known lady hockey playersproof positive of the fallacy that hockey damaged their appearance.

This charge was very deliberately brought against hockey for women some little time ago in an influential London journal, and was rightly and promptly answered by a spirited article with illustrations of some well-known lady hockey playersproof positive of the fallacy that hockey damaged their appearance.

The hockey season opened with the first hard ice on the river, and West joined the team that met and defeated St. Eustace in January.

The Academy hockey team, of which Jumbo was the leader, was working out a fine game and making its prowess felt among the rival teams of the Tri-State Interscholastic League.

But hockey did not interest Quiz; for though he could almost sleep on a bicycle without falling over, when he put on a pair of skates you might have thought that he was trying to turn somersaults or describe interrogation-points in the air.

One Saturday afternoon, when the roads were frozen into ruts as hard and sharp as iron, and when the Dozen had just started forth to take a number of pretty girls to see a promising hockey game, the villainous old fire-bell began to call for help.

The most popular of the story-tellers was B.J., whose favorite and most successful yarn was the account of the great ice-boat adventure, when the hockey team was wrecked upon Buzzard's Rock, and spent the night in the snow-drifts, with the blizzard howling outside.

He turned on his light, and quickly gathered together his hockey sweater, his watch-cap, and an old pair of trousers.

His features were agreeably insignificant; his body, though slight of build, had something of athletic outline, due to long practice at cricket, football, and hockey.

It said that their young brother, having sprained his ankle at hockey, had become a wolf for jig-saw puzzles.

Field hockey and soccer for women.

Field hockey and soccer for women, by Helen Frost and Hazel J. Cubberley.

Slashing sticks and other hockey stories.

Slashing sticks and other hockey stories.

Hockey player in penalty box, straining at his chains.

Donald joue au hockey.

POLO, a game similar to hockey, played on horseback with mallets, and devised by British officers in India in place of football.