*** When the Folkestone raid syren goes off, a man told the Dover Council, it blows your hat off.

The last raid was the smoke-house where stuffed sausage was hanging by the hundred and hams by the dozens.

It was when Price made his last raid to Missouri.

A raid is being planned into British territory.

This raid is no affair of yours.

Everybody seemed to want somebody else to father the proposal for a raid, although every man pretended to be anxious to take part in one.

If you raid Palestine, the local Arabs will all rise to your assistance.

The general feeling seemed to be in favour of a raid if only some one would start it.

A raid aimed at the Zionistsat this momentmight be goodperhaps.

But it was all-important to know who was in favour of the raid, and exactly why.

Therefore, when the illustrious Sheikh Abdul Ali of Damascus urged a raid on the one hand, and boasted of provision for a school in El-Kerak on the other, it would be well to examine this foreign effendi, whom Abdul Ali claimed to have introduced.

The whole question of raid or no raid hangs on their confidence in him.

The whole question of raid or no raid hangs on their confidence in him.

Abdul Ali kept conversation going on the subject of the raid.

You were trying to bring off a raid on Judaea.

Some Arab Sheikh probably captured his great-grandmother on a slave-raid.

And he growls when the murderous shrapnel flies screaming above the lines; His little black nose is a-quiver with glee whenever a raid is on, And they say with pride, "C'est la guerre elle-même, notre Poilu de Carcassonne!"

Mr. M. MORAND, the aggressive Scots member of the election committee, inspired to great heights of insobriety by the return of his London-Scottish nephew from the Front, sounded a welcome human note, as did Mr. SAM LIVESEY, the Labour Member of the committee, shaken out of his detachment into an extreme explicitness of language by a Zeppelin raid experience.

[Illustration: "EXCUSE ME, BUT IS THERE AN AIR-RAID ON?" "YES, I THINK SO.

"Why on this most favourable of nights is there no raid?"

"SAY, GUV'NOR, YER MIGHT RESERVE A COUPLE OF FIRST-CLASS DUNGEONS FOR ME AN' MY FRIENDS ON THE NEXT RAID NIGHT.

"THANK GOODNESS WE SHAN'T 'AVE NO AIR-RAID TO-NIGHT, MRS. 'ARRIS.

"Ruler wanted, experienced, male or female (male preferred); wages according to ability; removal assistance; away from raid area; permanency to suitable applicant."Eastern Daily Press.

I went to Boston, Texas with the colonel and his men and when he went on the big raid into Missouri he left me in Sevier County, Arkansas with his horses 'Little Baldy' and 'Orphan Boy'.

We shall, during that week, in order to prove the genuineness of our intentions, make a raid upon a certain city and, we hope, destroy it.

The snow on the ground also settles and thaws every bright day, and freezes at night, until it becomes coarsely granulated, and loses every trace of its rayed crystalline structure, and then a man may walk firmly over its frozen surface as if on ice.

Many of the starry snow-flowers, out of which these banners are made, fall before they are ripe, while most of those that do attain perfect development as six-rayed crystals glint and chafe against one another in their fall through the frosty air, and are broken into fragments.

Violets made their appearance in the first week of February, and toward the end of this month the warmer portions of the plain were already golden with myriads of the flowers of rayed composite.

Imbedded in the chalky mud of the deep sea, in many localities, are innumerable cup- shaped sponges, provided with six-rayed silicious spicula, so disposed that the wall of the cup is formed of a lacework of flinty thread.

The disks are, therefore, flattened bags; and favourable sections show that the three-rayed marking is the expression of three clefts, which penetrate one wall of the bag.

The strings of brilliants that led from it were arc lights at switch crossings where the great railway lines rayed out.

The quills were rayed out and flattened on the hinder part of its back, even as if it had lain on that part, but were erect and long between this and the tail.

This turf was broken by a number of beds of all shapes, the crescent, circle, and six-rayed star being apparently the chief favourites.

No counting covers the multitude of rayed blossoms that break suddenly underfoot in the brief season of the winter rains, with silky furred or prickly viscid foliage, or no foliage at all.

The large, low table, black and polished like teak-wood, upon which they had been examining the vizier's design, was lighted by a lamp of wrought iron swinging low by fanciful chains from the high ceiling, making a centre of dense yellow flame from which the shadows rayed off into the gloom of the farther portions of the room, and a charming picture of father and daughter was outlined against the vague darkness.

O, you were plaguy frayed, and foully rayed GRIPE.

There ben also in that contree passynge grete serpentes, sume of 120 Fote long, and thei ben of dyverse coloures, as rayed, rede, grene and zalowe, blewe and blake, and alle spekelede.

Well, sir, the rector, he come in an' opened his valise an' 'rayed hisself in his robes an' opened his book, an' while he was turnin' the leaves, he faced 'round an' says he, lookin' at me direc', says he: "Let the child be brought forward for baptism," says he, thess that-a-way.

Your splendour with the night sinks not in shade, Nor grows with day, howe'er that sun ride high Which on our mortal hearts life's heat hath rayed.

The music eddied under the rayed awning.

Long before we reached the Hudson the sky rayed and flamed with all the smokeless change of the Northern Lights.

There had been no movement of any kind since the ships had rayed the site.

Thou art thousand-rayed, thou art Aditya, and Tapana, and the lord of rays.

It is not so distinctly rayed as M. tulipa, and the inside is entirely of a brilliant pearly purple, except near the anterior basal edge.

This eminent king, resembling the bright-rayed sun, made all lords of earth pay tribute unto him like persons of the agricultural class.

The lotus[20] with the [S']aivala entwined Is not a whit less brilliant; dusky spots Heighten the lustre of the cold-rayed moon; This lovely maiden in her dress of bark Seems all the lovelier.

246 Hydrangea arborescens Tree Hydrangea c.m. 247 - hortensis Changeable-flowered ditto c.m. 248 - glauca Glaucous-leaved ditto b.l. 249 - radiata Rayed-flowered ditto b.l. DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

A full moon shone high in the sky with an immense arc of light around it, many-rayed, faintly prismatic.