Spelling and arithmetic, history, etymology, and geography, are not tasks set over school-children by a hard taskmaster, who keeps them from sunshine and out-of-door play.

Several of our folks have, from time to time, studied agriculture on New England town farms; which explains the passion I always had for such attractive out-of-door sports as stump-pulling, laying stone wall, and drinking very hard cider in the shade.

Here was an out-of-door, athletic youth, who knew how to move in drawing-roomsa big man who did not look much too large for his surroundings.

"The qualities most obvious are not those of the mystic, but of the manly out-of-door sportsman who may seem to be nothing more than a bluff Englishman who rides to the hounds and does his ordinary duties.

Trundling a hoop I have always regarded as an amusing out-of-door exercise; and I am not sorry when I sometimes see girls, as well as boys, engaged in it, under the eye of their mothers and teachers.

Rainsuch rain as makes out-of-door exercise impossiblewas always an affliction to Lady Mary Haselden.

Now, all those big wagons that bring the goods in and the little wagons that take them outthere is an out-of-door aspect to the delivery service.

They kept a gardener and out-of-door servant of all work, who cultivated the land, sawed and split their wood, ran of errands, and made himself generally useful.

On his primitive, out-of-door, fox-hunting mind the ethics of suicide lay as uneasily as absinthe on the stomach of a baby.

In spite of his tanand certainly he had led the out-of-door lifehis face showed white.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! "Nor is it every apple I desire, Nor that which pleases every palate best; 'T is not the lasting Deuxan I require, Nor yet the red-cheeked Greening I request, Nor that which first beshrewed the name of wife, Nor that whose beauty caused the golden strife: No, no! bring me an apple from the tree of life!"

There were such women, as we shall see, probably many of them; ever since the incoming of wealth and of Greek education, of theatres and amusements and all the pleasant out-of-door life of the city, what was now coming to be called cultus had occupied the minds and affected the habits of Roman ladies as well as men.

It was true also in large part of the intrinsically out-of-door employments, such as field-work.

He combined the freedom born of an out-of-door life with the courtly manners inherited from generations of Spanish ancestry.

San Francisco is essentially an out-of-door city, with three hundred odd days of clement weather, made for the display of light raiment, whether it be organdie dresses, sports togs or afternoon frocks.

The boys of the present age have no such opportunities for out-of-door sports as we did in the olden days.

I shall cherish the memory deeply in my affections, and let it stir my enthusiasm for the out-of-door life when the world seems all balled up, and things are going wrong.

Group portraits would do to work from, were it not for the strong out-of-door light under which they are necessarily taken, which gives an unwonted effect to the expression of the faces.

Suddenly, the grove and the garden ended and we were over the threshold of a square of sward, an out-of-door reception room, no tree or shrub encroaching.

SEE The Out-of-door book.

OUTDOOR AFFAIRS Out-of-door entertaining is perhaps the easiest kind of allif you live in the country or the near-country.

Professor Moses was in wretched health as the result of overwork and confinement, and needed out-of-door exercise.

If out-of-door study be impossible, they may be induced to recall objects which they have seen on their way to school or on short excursions in the neighborhood.

"We are all out-of-door people and sportsmen," he said, "and we begin early.

We have not been able to renew our old memories of that sort at all, except by a railway journey to Pompeii; and our days are spent in the museum and in the sunniest out-of-door spots.