The smaller pebbles were thrown into heaps, to make a hard floor for the workhouse schoolyard.

He dashed off toward the wombat schoolyard.

They were so numerous that the whole schoolyard was filled with them.

He walked straight on to the schoolyard gate and passed out.

" Miriam shut the door and went away, but in her dreams she rode a prancing charger into Miss Stone's schoolyard, and afterwards drove all the girls in a tally-ho.

" Compressed into an instant of acute feeling Sylvia felt the pangs which had racked her as a little girl when she had stood in the schoolyard with Camilla Fingál before her, and the terrifying hostile eyes about her.

The treasury yielded for a beginning the modest sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and with this money the women fitted out one schoolyard, large enough for sixty children to play in.

Two schoolyards were fitted up in Pittsburg and two in Allegheny.

The Board of Education co-operated to the extent of lending schoolyards.

The original one hundred and twenty-five dollars had now expanded to nearly eight thousand dollars, and Pittsburg and Allegheny children were not only playing in a dozen schoolyards, but they were attending vacation schools, under expert instructors in manual training, cooking, sewing, art-crafts.

The committee visited the Board of Education, explained the need of playgrounds, and asked that the Board conduct one trial playground in a schoolyard, during the approaching vacation.

They received permission to open and conduct, during the long vacation, one playground in a large schoolyard.

The process of educating the others is slow, but this year in Philadelphia sixty public schoolyards were opened for public playgrounds, and the city appropriated five thousand dollars towards their maintenance.

It broke out in a pause between two lessons when practically all the boys were gathered in the schoolyard.

There were games in the schoolyard during the pauses, and some of these were played in large groups or by teams.

But when Keith appeared in the schoolyard during one of the pauses next day, he was met from every side by the cry: "There's the explorer!

At school he began to join a group of boys who always gathered in a corner of the assembly hall during the pauses instead of mixing with the mob in the schoolyard.

" MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS PASSER-BY"What's the fuss in the schoolyard, boy?" THE BOY"Why, the doctor has just been around examinin' us an' one of the deficient boys is knockin' th' everlastin' stuffin's out of a perfect kid.