My first act as real commander was to announce holiday.

[Illustration] Uffizzi Robbinson was blessed with a very full rich, tenor voice but a very empty purse and he stood in need of a HOLIDAY.

He has gone forth on a holiday to take the country air, to thrust himself into the freer wind, to poke with his stick for such signs of Spring as may be hiding in the winter's leaves.

But the best holiday was a trip to the farm.

If one kept shop on a breezy tip of the Delectable Mountains with all the regions of the world laid out below, he could not be expected to climb up for the hundredth time with a first exhilaration, or to swing his alpenstock as though he were on a rare holiday.

I hope that the book went out on a Saturday noon when the spirits rise for the holiday to come, and that a rainy Sunday followed, so that my single reader was kept before his fire.

On a holiday I was at it early.

Consider this list of everyday words: somebody, already, disease, vineyard, unskilled, outlet, nevertheless, holiday, insane, resell, schoolboy, helpmate, uphold, withstand, rainfall, deadlock, typewrite, football, motorman, thoroughfare, snowflake, buttercup, landlord, overturn.

<Hale, heal, hol, whole> (sound): (1) hale, hallow, Hallowe'en, heal, health, unhealthy, healthful, holy, holiday, hollyhock, whole, wholesome; (2) halibut, halidom.

"If it would give me a holiday like this, I'd get hurt again.

"I've had a pretty good holiday, but my wad's nearly gone.

Already these brilliant trees throughout the street, without any more variety, are at least equal to an annual festival and holiday, or a week of such.

It is to be hoped that the little bills may thus be saved from holiday havoc by persons who object to incurring large ones.

Here a week's holiday was granted to a large proportion of the officers and a small proportion of the rank and file.

He was apparently a Bavarian farmer, somewhat advanced in years, and wearing, in addition to his richly-substantial holiday attire, a deep green shade over his eyes, which accounted for the character of his thanksgivings to the miraculous image.

Commencement had not ceased to be the great holiday of the Puritan Commonwealth, and a fitting one it wasthe festival of Santa Scholastica, whose triumphal path one may conceive strewn with leaves of spelling-books instead of bay.

But no foot of man e'er came that way Earth was young and keeping holiday.

It was a lovely morning, and, having nothing to do and plenty in 'is pocket to do it with, he went along like a schoolboy with a 'arf holiday.

The day, month, year, to the great act are join'd: And a new canting holiday design'd.

*** The No-Treating Order was revoked on June 4th, and it is generally expected that this date will be made an annual, public holiday in Scotland.

She had told him of her pilgrimages during holiday time to the infinite centres of sorrowand it became a kind of dream of histhe time when they would go together, not holidays alone, but always.

Summer holiday, by Sheila Kaye-Smith.

Summer holiday.

Even parson, who'd been away for a holiday, said so, and Henery Walker told 'is wife that if she ever set foot inside the church agin 'ed ask 'is old mother to come and live with 'em.

Life is not all for effort: there are hours, When fancy breaks from the exacting will, And rebel thought takes schoolboy's holiday, Rejoicing in its idle strength.