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Updated: June 23, 2025
'We are short to-night! cries the woman, with a propitiatory laugh. 'Short and snappish we are! But we're out of sorts for want of a smoke. We've got the all-overs, haven't us, deary? But this is the place to cure 'em in; this is the place where the all- overs is smoked off. 'You may make ready, then, replies the visitor, 'as soon as you like.
The scorer in the tent hurriedly sharpened his pencil. The big fellows, who had been standing up to watch the opening overs, sat down on the grass and made themselves comfortable. Something was going to happen, evidently. The captain was in, and meant business. Oliver gripped the ball hard in his hand, and walked back to the end of his run.
Adair pounded away at one end with brief intervals between the attacks. Mr. Downing took a couple more overs, in one of which a horse, passing in the road, nearly had its useful life cut suddenly short. Change-bowlers of various actions and paces, each weirder and more futile than the last, tried their luck. But still the first-wicket stand continued.
The ball jumped the ring at its first bound, and Mallinson never even attempted to run. There was a big round of applause from the Trent Bridge crowd. I noticed that Stott had tied a handkerchief round his finger, but I forgot the incident until I saw Findlater beckon to his best bowler, a few overs later. Notts had made enough runs for decency; it was time to get them out.
Now, with this interesting performance of Freedham's, my desire to describe this cricket match ends. There was a hot finish, but, in spite of some fortunate overs from myself, the Suckers won.
Oliver, despite Paul's prophecy, stood out several overs of Rickett's, and Loman's, and the school captain's, one after the other, cutting some of their balls very hard, and keeping a very steady guard over his wicket. At last a ball of Loman's got past him and snicked off his bails.
It was not until he was twenty years old that Ginger Stott played in his first Colts' match. The three years that had intervened had not been prosperous years for Hampdenshire. Their team was a one-man team. The best of the minor counties in those years were Staffordshire and Norfolk. In the Colts' match Stott's analysis ran: overs maidens runs wickets 11·3 7 16 7
An Horse may snapper on four feet. All things wytes that well not fares. All things thrive but thrice. Absence is a shro. Auld sin, new shame. A man cannot thrive except his wife let him. A bairn must creep ere he gang. As long as ye bear the tod, ye man bear up his tail. All overs are ill but over the water. A man may wooe where he will, but wed where is his weard. A mean pot plaid never even.
The Authentics made a hundred and eighty-four, so that the School just won; and the story of how there were five men out in the deep for him, and how he put the slow bowler over their heads and over the ropes eight times in three overs, had passed into a school legend. But today other things than cricket occupied his attention.
Luck still befriended him: he bowled four wickets in twelve overs; the wicket-keeper stumped a fifth: the rest were "the tail," and disposed of for a few runs, and the total was no more than Huntercombe's first innings. Our hero then took the bat, and made forty-seven runs before he was disposed of, five wickets down for a hundred and ten runs.
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