Their play is a make-believe battle or escaping or funeral or capture.

The tigers ride bicycles, and the leopards jump about wherever the trainer tells them to; a monkey acts as clown, and a little elephant runs a make-believe automobile.

" "O no, Madame John, it is only make-believe, I think.

But, even when the field-rifles began to boom and shroud the landscape in drifting smoke, the make-believe aspect of the affair did not in any degree diminish.

How much finer it is than the vulgar boastfulness of the Semitic epitaphs, or our own miserable, insincere make-believe of the 'Not lost but gone before' type.

It was a rather silly, childish sort of make-believe, and I wouldn't have told anyone else for the world; not even my father.

" Most excellent Pope, who would play at make-believe.

This scene is more suggestive of the Mediterranean than Yorkshire, for the blueness of the sea seems almost unnatural, and the golden greens of the pretty little gardens among the houses seem perhaps a trifle theatrical; but the fisher-folk play their parts too well, and there is nothing make-believe about the delicious bread-and-butter and the newly-baked cakes which accompany the tea awaiting us in a spotlessly clean cottage close by.

The common life passed on its way without bothering its head further, leaving the artist caste to wither in a make-believe refinement.

To them, though make-believe, it was a make-believe of something that was right and natural and in no sense cruel.

They blew dust up in the air, to pretend it was smoke, and there was the most terrible make-believe battle you ever heard of.

It did not show itself at once, but afterward it seemed to Katie that the next day marked the beginning of Ann's retreat on the bridge of make-believe.

"Why, I'm Merry Chuckle from Make-Believe Land!" replied the elf.

But what made this conduct irresistibly ludicrousthough painful to any gentleman to witnesswas the mockery of make-believe gallantry exhibited, in seating all the ladies before any gentleman was allowed to enter; the upshot of which was, that they gradually created a comparatively beaten path for the gentlemen to get in by.

He, too, was dazed by the sudden transition from his real world to his make-believe.

So much more thrilling was it than any fiction he might have imagined, so more than human had been the cunning of the Master Dramatist, that the little make-believe he was pondering seemed clumsy and poor, and he turned from it to try to tell what had really been.

"We can have a make-believe county fair and charge admission, and give medals" "Of pasteboard.

On the road to Make-Believe.

CUTHRELL, FAITH BALDWIN. Make-believe, by Faith Baldwin.

R97448, 7Jul52, Rand McNally & Co. (PWH) FORSTER, FREDERICK J. On the road to Make-Believe, pictures by Uldene Trippe.

Arthur I. Gates & Miriam Blanton Huber (A); 16Apr58; R213076. Make and make-believe, by Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber.

If ever his mind roamed again to the world of make-believe, that ring would jerk him back to facts.

Don't you worship images, and take off and put on garments at your prayers, and kneel down in a make-believe, profane way: and don't you turn everything into vain ceremonies?" Had Ithuel been engaged, body and soul, in maintaining one of the propositions of the Oxford Tracts' controversy, he could not have uttered these words with greater zeal or with a more self-righteous emotion.

Not only knowing full well the existence of this swelling heart and the significance, to-day, of its every warm pulsation, but kindly covering up the discovery with make-believe reproaches.

Superstition, bah! Which fools itself with idle make-believe.