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Then an Irish yell from Murty O'Toole woke the echoes, even as the bowler's hand flashed up above his head and the big stockman flung up his bat in an ecstasy of delight. Billings bit off a sharp word and left his crease; and Cunjee woke to the fact that the Mulgoan captain was caught and bowled. The match was theirs by one run! When Cunjee woke it became very thoroughly awake.
Wallas amused himself by reading over the directions for restoring life to the apparently drowned, and Wester tidied up Bowler's study and helped him make up the stores into seven equal brown-paper packages, writing the name of the owner of each on the outside. This done, the preparations were pronounced as complete as they could be till Monday dawned.
I don't believe old Bowler knew he had let the cat out. Burr leaves to-morrow. He was out visiting to-night." "How do you know that?" Cary demanded, with sudden sharpness. "Bowler's best bedroom in darkness no special preparations for supper Burr's man idling in the kitchen mine host taking no cake to speak low, in short, the wedding guest was roaming. I wonder where he was!"
"You'll cut the ball, not your throat," said the Duffer. Cutting was Caesar's strong point. The Caterpillar nodded, and spoke oracularly "My governor says he never shoots at a snipe without muttering to himself, 'Snipe on toast. It steadies his nerves. When you see the ball leave the bowler's band, you say to yourself, 'Eton on toast." "Your own, Caterpillar?"
The younger Cary closed his book and hospitably poured wine for his brother. "Were you at the Amblers'?" he asked. "It's a night for one's own fireside. I went to the Mayos', but the fair Maria is out of town. On the way I stopped at Bowler's Tavern to see his man about that filly we were talking of, and I had a glass with old Bowler himself. He let out a piece of news.
We refused at first, but after a while, when we heard the singing, we went down to the quarters, and found her sitting under one of the trees with all the young ones clustered round her; and we waited there and listened until we began to feel very sorry that we had played so late at Bowler's the night before.
"But, Charley," suggested Sidney Grant, a tall, fair-haired fellow, and our best bat he could swipe away at leg balls; and as for straight drives, well, he'd send 'em over a bowler's head, just out of his reach, and right to the boundary wall, at such a rate, like an express train going through the air, that they defied stopping.
No, it's not Adam Gaudylock. It is " He hesitated, then took up a pen and wrote two words. "That's his name but you are to keep it dark." Mocket's tilted chair came noisily to the floor. "What! In Richmond! he in Richmond! When did he come? Where's he staying?" "He came last night, and he's staying quietly at Bowler's Tavern.
Yet always, even in his most cosseted and idle days, he managed to preserve the grave preoccupation of one professionally concerned with retrieving things that smell; and consoled himself with pastimes such as cricket, which he played in a manner highly specialised, following the ball up the moment it left the bowler's hand, and sometimes retrieving it before it reached the batsman.
Johnson, at the wicket bowled to, being a hard but not very scientific hitter, lifted a half volley ball right over the bowler's head, a hit for four, but a skyscraper.
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