echoed the audience, who by this time were just in the spirit for "ragging," and would have ejected friend or foe alike for the sport of the thing"turn him out!"

Mr. Outwood pondered wistfully on this at times, not knowing that the Fire Brigade owed its support to the fact that it provided its lighthearted members with perfectly unparalleled opportunities for ragging, while his own band, though small, was, in the main, earnest.

These two officials were those sportive allies, Stone and Robinson, of Outwood's house, who, having perceived at a very early date the gorgeous opportunities for ragging which the Brigade offered to its members, had joined young and worked their way up.

They looked on school life purely as a vehicle for ragging.

So that he escaped the ragging he would have had to undergo at Wrykyn in similar circumstance.

Pulin, however, had never joined in "ragging" him, and, on one occasion, he lent Rámtonu Rs. 7 for his wife, who was about to increase the population of Gáya.

What do you mean?' "'Not ragging, really, Bill.

Johnny, I remember, said to her (those two were always ragging each other), 'Ah, you may be wishing you only could pip out, then....'

"When the old man got to ragging me a bit, I felt I must do something to convince him I was all right.

" "Oh, he's madmad with Rameau's continual ragging and baiting," Nettings answered.

"You are ragging me, sir," he stammered, uncertainly.

In fact, almost any act of ragging or violence can be forgiven on this strict conditionthat it is of no use at all to anybody.

No abatement of the plague of questions is yet noticeable, but some slight excuse may be found for the "ragging" of the Censor.

" "But what are they ragging him about down there, Chase," blurted out the unhappy Deppingham.

With his rag of a hat on the ground and his head tightly wrapped in the familiar Madras kerchief of the slave deck-hand, the attendant at the carriage side reverently awaited the relifting of her lids.

This Plan miscarried, because all the Men wanted to hear Rag Time played by Josephine, the Life-Saver.

As soon as they have plundered a man they throw him away like a dye-rag that has been squeezed dry.

Ragging banter and jest and worse than jest and grim defiance are exchanged between the trenches when they are within such easy hearing distance of each other; but always from a safe position behind the parapet which the adversaries squint across through their periscopes.

The lady wore tin plates, tin cans, tin spoons, etc., sewed on to skirt and waist in fantastic patterns, making music as she walked, and on her head a battered old coffee pot, with artificial flowers which had outlived their usefulness sticking out of the spout; and her winning partner was arrayed in rag patchwork of the most demented variety.

The coming up of the tides, and the ships, and the jolly gangs of towers ragging them on with a monotonous song made a daily delight for us.

"H'ist the rag.

The rag is about to be h'isted.

He poured a little of the precious water on to this rag, lashed the water-sack tight again, and with the warm, wet rag bathed the woman's face, brow, and throat.

He poured a little of the precious water on to this rag, lashed the water-sack tight again, and with the warm, wet rag bathed the woman's face, brow, and throat.

He eventually carried these points, but at the price of an entire alienation of the democratic party in the Congress, who wished to have the war fought with militia, to have all the officers elected annually, and to whom the very suggestion of pensions was like a red rag to a bull.