But here, again, the love of larking which is so characteristic of the lawless small boy came into evidence, and with that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin, friend and foe alike joined in the spree of interrupting the proceedings.

The farm can't be run with decrepit men or larking boys, nor the war won with less than its full quota of soldiers.

The two made a very suitable pair, and were ever larking and rambling along the paths, under the leaves, beside the ditches.

At New Haven and Cambridge lads of his age were larking beneath the elms and playing childish pranks on each other.

[Footnote 2: 'as so I am informed, and that by way of caution,'] [Footnote 3: making it, 'the poor phrase' tenders, gallop wildly aboutas one might roam a horse; larking it.]

Only to think that all the time I was grieving for you as dead and buried by the Russians among the hills over there that you were larking about with those jolly Russian girls.

They all run and leap in the merry morning-air, and, as we watch them more nearly, we know them to be the royal family out larking before Paris is astir.

Larking picked it up at .

The plan adopted here, of having the stools made of iron and screwed on to the floor, with a wooden seat fixed on the top for each pupil, and a separate desk for every two, struck me as admirably calculated to improve ventilation and check sky-larking and noise.

Swathed in the sheet like a Roman senator he lay down on one of the green velvet couches, relics of past Pullman glories, and there, with the rumble and roar of steel trains overhead, with the smart click of the billiard balls sounding in his ears, with the phonograph and the electric piano going full blast, with the boys dancing and larking all about the big room, he fell sound asleep as only a boy cub can sleep.

In the same way, the lads at Oxford and Cambridge are only larking because England, in the depths of its solemn soul, really wishes them to lark.

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

"Only trod on Dumps's paw, sir," said Mivins, as he hurried aft; "the men are sky-larking.

" "Sky-larking, are you?" said Saunders, going forward.

" LAMBERT B. LARKING.

LAMBERT B. LARKING Ryarsh Vicarage.

[Footnote 1: The successor of the Sir Edward Dering, from whose Household Book the Rev. Lambert B. Larking communicated the interesting entries in No. 9.

Sky larking; with seven illus.

Sky larking; with seven illus.

NOTES: Page Wages in 17th and 19th centuries, by Rev. L.B. Larking ..225 Marlowe and the old Taming of a Shrew, by S. Hickson ....226 Notes from Fly-Leaves, No. 6., by Rev. J. Jebb ..........227 Shakspeare's Use of Monosyllables, by C. Forbes .........

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

" LAMBERT LARKING.

Evenings at the hotels were passed in reviving the "sky-larking" of school-boy days.

THE COUNTESS OF. LARKING, T. J., 28, New Bond Street, W. MRS.

I was fond of "larking" and merry enough, but I hated being laughed at!