The Women's Farm and Garden Union was the fore-runner of the official Land Army, and to it still is left the important work of enrolling those women who, while willing to undertake agricultural work, are disinclined to sign up for service "for the duration of the war.

Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner in the National League.

Its hissing crackling monotone, like the creaking of steel sledge-runners on frost-filled snow, came faintly to the ears of Kazan and Gray Wolf.

The racing feud between the Y-Bar and the Quarter Circle KT was well known to all and Sabota himself had cleaned up a neat sum when the black horse from the Vermejo had outstepped the runner from the Quarter Circle KT.

"The Moose felt quite certain of winning this time, because by their magic their runners were to be turned into real Moose, with four legs, and they argued that runners with four feet could surely beat those who had only two.

"Captain Bill's got an extra set of new runners at the side of his scooter and wants to test them.

It found its way to me from fort to fort, brought up part of the way with the letters to the troops stationed at our upper forts, then carried by the Indian runners to the trading-posts of the fur-companies till it reached me in the depths of the Rocky Mountains.

They needed no runners for the ice was so slippery and the hill so steep anything would go down it fast enough.

of the drivers, the grate and swish of the runners over the ice, and Kaviak's coughing.

" With a quick movement he touched her outstretched hand, and he would have made the others some trouble to catch him, for he was the smartest runner among the children; but as he turned he tripped on a stone, and lay sprawling.

" Taking this hint, the girls whipped up their horses and followed the runner along the dark and tangled pathway.

They couldn't have thought that they could succeed in tiring out a runner like him!

But in the abbey at that time was a cloister-monk named Friar John of the Trenchermen, young, gallant, frisky, lusty, nimble, quick, active, bold, resolute, tall, wide-mouthed, and long-nosed; a fine mumbler of matins, a fair runner through masses, and a great scourer of vigilsto put it short, a true monk, if ever there was one since the monking world monked a monkery.

Robin looked after them, laughing, and thought that never had he seen so fleet a runner as the Lame man; but neither of the beggars stopped nor turned around, for each felt in his mind the wind of Robin's cudgel about his ears.

From the ice-hills came the swishing scream of the iron runners down the terrific slope.

If I am leading an elementary run uphill, I can soon pick out the experienced runners by the line they take and the pace at which they climb.

By these means the organized tours only take runners up to the standard advertised, and no one need feel compunction at leaving members of their party behind in the village, because they know that the elementary runner will also get a chance of a run.

Never cut a track across a dangerous place at your own risk if there is the slightest chance of misleading another runner into danger later.

The Tests are open to all ski-runners without payment, but successful candidates will only receive a certificate and badge if they are members or prospective members of one of the Clubs represented on the Council.

Again most people would not think it necessary to warn runners against deserting their party.

Emma's been waiting for her cue like a hundred-yards runner before the pistol.

Foul balls were unknown, the sphere could be knocked toward any quarter of the earth or sky; runners between bases could be pelted with it by any of the outfielders.

But, just as he was about to leap, a sudden gust of wind lifted the windward runner off the ice at least two feet.

Needless to say this does not apply to a runner out of control, who may be dashing unwillingly into someone in front of him when, for both their sakes, a friendly warning is advisable!

I think he will soon send two or three runners toward the south.