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Young Black, whom I had strangely missed from his position at long-stop since I commenced to bowl the over, stepped out from beneath the shadow of the trees, where he had concealed himself in the meantime, and amidst the ringing plaudits, not only of our lot but of the spectators as well who turned round in our favour at the first breath of success caught the ball with the utmost sangfroid, sending it a moment afterwards spinning in the air triumphantly, in the true cricketonian manner, as an acknowledgment of the feat and accompanying cheers.
"I have not bowled this season, sir, but I used to bowl pretty fairly." "Very well, then, take the ball at this end after the next over. I am going to try Smith at this end," he said to the young lieutenant who was long-stop. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, there is one thing, he cannot make a worse mess of it than we are making already." When the over was concluded, Edgar took the ball.
The next was frightfully swift, and dead on, but it broke a bit to the leg, and I was just in time to get at it and send it right away between long-leg and long-stop in the elms a safe five if we'd been running. And old Bloomfield laughed and said he couldn't wait till the ball was sent up, and said I could turn up at the second-eleven Big practice to-morrow and see how I got on there.
Bravo, Fifth!" was the cry as Oliver, following up the first ball of the over, pilfered a bye from the long-stop. "Didn't I tell you!" exclaimed Pembury, delighted; "he'll save us; he's got down to that end on purpose to take the bowling. Do you twig, Loamy? And he'll stick to that end till the last ball of the over, and then he'll run an odd number, and get up to the other end.
The captain of the university eleven saw a cricket-ball thrown all across the ground; he instantly sent a professional bowler to find out who that was; through the same ambassador the thrower was invited to play on club days; and proving himself an infallible catch and long-stop, a mighty thrower, a swift runner, and a steady, though not very brilliant bat, he was, after one or two repulses, actually adopted into the university eleven.
He's a tutor at King's, and though he's a dear good fellow, and a splendid long-stop, I couldn't myself conscientiously say I regard guilelessness as quite his most marked characteristic. "What are you doing?" I asked, as Lucy sat down with a resolutely determined air at her writing-table in the corner. "Doing!" my wife replied, with some asperity her tone.
A shout rose from the Hussars as two of the wickets went flying into the air. Another player came out, but at the fourth ball of the over his middle stump was levelled. "What do you think of that, Langley?" Captain Moffat asked the long-stop as they walked together to the other end. "We have found a treasure.
The wicket-keeper jumped out of the way, as his mother would have wished him to do, and Long-stop shut his eyes and hoped for the best. The batsman blindly waved his bat, and, inasmuch as the ball hit it, and rebounded some distance, called to his partner, who was mending the binding on his bat-handle. "Will you come? Osborne, you fool! Yes. Yes. YES! No, no. YE-E-ES! No go back, you fool.
Reichenbach, the doyenne of the Comedie Francaise, as Suzel. Of this charming artist Sarcey wrote that, having attained her sixteenth year, there she made the long-stop, never oldening with others. L'Ami Fritz is, in reality, a German bucolic, the scene being laid in Bavaria. But it has long been accepted as a classic, and on the stage it becomes thoroughly French.
"There have been very ugly kings." "It isn't hideous," said Janet. "It's a perfect darling. But what are we to do with it?" "If it's a boy," said Gregory, "let's keep it and make it into a long-stop. We want one badly." "Let's adopt it," said Hester. "Mother often says how she wishes we were still babies." "Don't let's adopt it if it's a girl," said Gregory.
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