" "What do you mean?" "Why, sometimes when Blake is out spending the evening, and old Welsby is shut up in his library, the different rooms make raids on one another.

" THE NIGHT RAID OF REDUAN Two thousand are the Moorish knights that 'neath the banner stand Of mighty Reduan, as he starts in ravage thro' the land.

It is not necessary to say much concerning Price's raid in general, as that event is a matter of recorded history.

At the time of the execution of John Brown for his attempted raid into Virginia, I remember bringing the Chicago Tribune to the doctor, containing the announcement of the execution.

Concentrations on enemy trenches and wire and special counter-battery shoots by day and counter-battery support of Infantry raids by night were continually required of us.

One of the last news reports from the front told of him still flying under French colors and having twice returned from raids with his passenger killed by enemy attacks and of his being awarded the war cross.

Americans honour this respect for the rules of civilised warfare and regret that even occasionally France has yielded to the provocation for reprisal raids against such a place as Freiburg.

But I have a notionmaybe it's only a notion, though Lawrence is half inclined to it himselfthat there's more in this business than a raid from the hills.

He sat over the fire, close over it, as he had done in the backwoods many a night, smoking the old brier pipe that had cheered him in his hours of solitary watching, and thinking with a grim bitterness that it would have been better for him if he had been knocked on the head the night of the raid at Salisbury Plain.

(4) His force was best placed to cut off any enemy light craft that might be located in southern waters and to attack Zeppelins at sea on their return from raids over England.

"There was some talk of another raid for tonight, you remember, Tom," he said, when they once more alighted and gave the plane over into the charge of the hostlers; "and if it turns out that way I only hope we're detailed to go along to guard the bombers.

It was when Price made his last raid to Missouri.

The Yankees had made a raid through Bolivar, before I came, and the excitement had not abated, as they were spreading themselves all through the state.

At the time of the Anglo-Norman conquest Ireland was said to be full of English slaves carried off in raids along the coast, and these filibustering expeditions undoubtedly began in very early times.

American flyers also made successful raids across the German border, blowing up munitions works, railway centers, and German troops at concentration points.

Out of hundreds of halls that had been raided during the past two years this was the first time the union men had attempted to defend themselves.

X. THE RAIDS OF THE NORTHMEN. XI.

That nobody had caught the great Confederate cavalryman did not console them; they had to listen to the jeers of the infantry, blaming them for Stuart's great raid around the entire Union army; in sickening reiteration came the question: "Who ever saw a dead cavalryman?"

Our own companion, Captain Mannesmann, heard only the day before, when we stopped at Hirsonjust over the border from Belgium that his cousin had won the Iron Cross for conspicuous courage, and within three days more was to hear that this same cousin had been sniped from ambush during a night raid down the left wing.

Though the dispossessed rulers were not quite in a position to throw stones at sinners, this was rather a raid than an operation of recognised warfare, because it preceded the formal outbreak of hostilities.

Other raids toward Sind took place in 662 and 664, with no lasting results.

As matters were managed, they kept close to our lines at all the military posts between Cairo and Baton Rouge, sometimes remaining respectfully quiet, and at others making occasional raids within a thousand yards of our pickets.

'Alf-a-dozen 'Un aeroplanes made a raid behind our lines; and seeing a beautiful Red Cross trainit was a new London and North Western train, chocolate and white, with red crosses as plain as could bewell, they simply couldn't resist such a target as that!

Certainly there was a period of peace, when no wars troubled the State but those which were distant,on the very confines of the Empire, and that with rude barbarians, no more formidable in the eyes of the luxurious citizens of the capital than a revolt of the Sepoys to the eyes of the citizens of London, or Indian raids among the Rocky Mountains to the eyes of the people of New York.

He had just dispatched a military force in another direction to intercept and disarm a raid about to be made by a detachment of Lane's men, when news came to him that the Missourians were still moving upon Lawrence, in increased force, that his officers had not yet delivered his orders, and that skirmishing had begun between the outposts.