Almost before the red-faced gentleman's shoulders had struck the ground I had reached the railing which bounded the wood, and putting one hand on the top bar had vaulted over into its inviting gloom.

"The little fellow tried to jump the piazza railing and fell," explained Mr. Lloyd, laughingly.

Hastily I wrapped the treaty in a towel which hung over the iron railing, lifted out two of the flower-pots (in which the plants were dead and dry), laid the flat parcel I had made in the bottom of the box, and replaced the pots to cover and conceal it.

I went cold all over, and had to clutch the railing.

Aurora approached the railing which shut in the silent toilers and directed her eyes to the farthest corner of the room.

Old Van Quintem looked at the intruder a moment, and then said, as if remembering something, "Are you the man sent by Crumley to mend my piazza railing?" There was the least hesitation in the man's voice, as he answered, "Yes, sir.

" "Wait till I take a look at them," he said, and, vaulting the low railing, he walked quickly along the front of the house and around the corner.

I snatched it from him, opened the front door, leaped the railing, and stole along the house to the corner.

" He had turned and faced her, his hands back of him, gripping the railing.

It was obliged to stop on passing the railings.

Well, we sailed and we sailed, but it was poor sailing for me, and every hour I longed to make a monster jump, clear the railing, and splash into the splendid bed beneath the cooped-up tank.

He was heard climbing the railings by Assistant-warder Conway, who immediately gave the alarm and closed with the fugitive.

" He suddenly straightened up to attention as a big, fierce-looking man plunged in, nearly demolished the railing in passage, and made for a door marked "Private.

He removed the satin covering from the throne, carefully dusted the railing with his handkerchief, before he hung the satin over it, and then seated himself in the royal chair.

"And, for want of reason, he falls a railing::" i.e., to railing.

The live stock is usually crowded into close quarters on the after and outlying guards, having a high railing and strong supports.

I had under me, too, a couple of Canadian drivers whose lorry in crossing one of the ramshackle bridges over a river, hit the railing on the side and plunged to the rocky depths below.

In those uniform housesin their railings, their Venetian blinds, indiarubber plants, and stained-glass panels to the doorshe beheld the coming degradation of his country.

Someone was creeping down the street, hugging the railings.

There were no chairs in this hall, and the boy made no move to open the railing.

But there was a strength and virility about everything, from the vulcanic pounding and crashing in mills and arsenals to the sturdy uniformed women who were pushing heavy trucks along railroad platforms or polishing railings and door knobs on the long lines of cars in the train yards.

There he proceeded along the railing of the court.

Every one has been struck with repugnant melancholy in the city church-yard, where tomb presses against tomb, and multitude in death destroys identity, saving where the little greatness of wealth or rank may provide itself a separate railing or an overtopping urn.

I would recommend ornamental iron railings or neatly cut and well painted wooden pales, as more airy, light, and cheerful, and less favorable to snakes and centipedes.

If I meet with railing tongues, Why should I return their railing? Since I best revenge my wrongs