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... the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty struggle splendidly ended; and truly could it be ... ... her last. ‘Dan Merion died, I remember, about the day of my sail- ing for India,’ said the General. ‘She may be his daughter.’ 20 Diana of the Cross... .... Dan Merion were chums. We were parted by my mar- riage and the voyage to India. We have not yet exchanged a syllable: she was snapped up, of course,... ...name in a newspaper—letter on the subject. He was gen- erally safe for the cricketing days.’ Lady Dunstane kindly appeared to call it to mind, and she... ... Andrew Hedger, as he stated his name to be, would never show the same old cricketing commons it did when he was a boy. Old England, he de- clared, wa... ...ines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a reserved haughtiness in woman, a tempered disdain... ..., persuasive.’ ‘Does Mr. Dacier agree?’ ‘Not always. He has the inveterate national belief that Celtic blood is childish, and the consequently illogic... ...pocrisy, soundness of moral fi- bre runs throughout the country and is the national integ- rity, which may condone old sins for present service; but w... ...s in the dishes, when the ceiling came down, and we all sprang up merry as crickets. It led to a pretty encounter and a real prize-shot.’ ‘Does that s...

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...ached down and got my walking-shoes, then sat up in bed and listened, in order to exactly locate the noise. But I couldn’t do it; it was as unlocatabl... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ... run across you in Italy, you hunt me up in London before you sail.’” The next item which I find in my note-book is this one: “The fact that a band of... ...nt leisure, and that we are only able to send 1,200 soldiers against them, is utilized here to discourage emigration to America. The common people thi... ...n the matter of numbers. It is rather a striking one, too. I have not distorted the truth in saying that the facts in the above item, about the army a... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...ngers, with happy eye, and flying hair, and jolly red face, and offering his card to the old German gentleman while he praised his hack and horses, an... ...considerably; at the same instant I cast my eyes down the side on which I had slipped, and contrived to plant my right foot on a piece of rock as larg...

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...of meeting, and Sego, or Sago, the ordinary term of salutation used by the Indians of this region. There is a tradition which says that the neighborin... ...ngthen their alliances, and which refers the name to this practice. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, howev... ...ffice of a smoke-house. In 1779 an expedition was sent against the hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of th... ...jingling up the sides of the mountain, at a rate that announced a powerful team and a hard driver. The bushes which lined the highway interrupted the ... ...illage were ordinarily quarried, and in which he now attempted to turn his team. Passing itself was a task of difficulty, and fre- quently of danger, ... ...horse to give him his heal, I should not wonder if I had to sell the whole team, just for that one jerk he gave them,” Richard paused and hemmed; for ... ...lers had united, according to the Christian custom, his baptismal with his national name, and to them he was generally known as John Mohegan, or, more... ...he season, Richard, however, boasted for many a year of his shot with the “cricket;” and Benjamin gravely asserted that he thought they had killed nea... ... a lawyer—’but Can communicate nothing further at present’—hum, hum. “ The national convention ‘— hum, hum—’ unfortunate Louis’—hum, hum—’ex- ample of...

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... a work as this, just as boys at school used to draw out the elevens for a cricket match.’ The old stager turned round and stared at the younger polit... ...so conveniently for the making of a new government, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes a... ...lives less safe, their general position more debased, and their chances of national success more remote than ever.’ ‘Y ou can never teach them, except... ...lently,—I mean openly, to my face. But he based his objection solely on my nationality,—national- ity and blood. As to my condition in the world, fort... ...ountry would be invaded by the combined forces of Germany and France, that India would be sold by those powers to Russia, that Canada would be annexed... ...s in times of hot political warfare. One of the most moving sources of our national excitement seemed to have vanished from life. We all know what hap... ...e Prime Minister her husband had fixed the day for her departure. The next Indian mail-packet by which they would leave England would start from South... ...ispute there would have been no such interest felt. Had the welfare of the Indian Empire occupied the House, the House would have been empty. But the ... ... him your noble colleague, and your noble friend, and make one of the same team with him and all that. But it used to be so much more than that.’ ‘It ...

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... of it was held in her hand. On the upper part of the arm, a device of Our Lord on the Cross, with stars surrounding the head of the Cross, and one la... ... M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING me to the East- end of London, I had turned my face to that point of the metropolitan compass on leaving Covent-garde... ...enjoying the huge piles of building belonging to the sugar refiners, the little masts and vanes in small back gardens in back streets, the neighbourin... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...ing small-sword exercise, broad-sword exercise, wres- tling, and other such feats. I went in, and some of the sword- play being very skilful, remained... ...t down—horrors at which I trembled in my bed, after supplicating that the Radicals might be speedily taken and hanged. Here, too, had we, the small bo... ...lamps, and the gleam on the hatches and paddle-boxes is their gleam on cottages and haystacks, and the monoto- nous noise of the engines is the steady...

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...sh. 5 Frank Norris “Hello, Bismarck,” said Presley, as Hooven brought his team to a standstill by the tank, preparatory to refilling. “Yoost der men ... ... climbed back to his seat under the wagon umbrella, and, as he started his team again with great cracks of his long whip, turned to the painters still... ...med, “to- morrow morning on the early train; wants me to meet him with the team at Guadalajara; and,” he cried between his clenched teeth, as he conti... ...his head was, no doubt, habitual with him, for his face was as brown as an Indian’s—a ruddy brown quite different from Presley’s dark olive. To Presle... ...y in En- glish. So he had come back again, this great fellow, tanned as an Indian, lean as an Indian, with an Indian’s long, black hair. But he had no... ...miles distant—a drought on the prairies of Dakota, a rain on the plains of India, a frost on the Russian steppes, a hot wind on the llanos of the Arge... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ...the pallid surface of the venerable facade. Not the faintest chirring of a cricket broke the silence. The bees were asleep. In the grasses, in the tre... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ...

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... of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. Also, to declare how astounded I have ... ...han if they had been born to cluster round the blazing hearth like so many crickets. Out upon the angry wind! how from sighing, it began to bluster ro... ...uch circumstances. But, Lord, there’s no dullness at the Dragon! Skittles, cricket, quoits, 68 Martin Chuzzlewit nine-pins, comic songs, choruses, co... ...small round table on which were a lamp, divers sheets of paper, a piece of India rubber, and a case of instruments; all put ready, in case an architec... ...u were not prepared, sir ,’ said the gentle- man, ‘to behold such signs of National Prosperity as those?’ He pointed to the vessels lying at the wharv... ...abours to the prevailing taste, and of his being strictly and peculiarly a national feature of America. They walked a mile or more along a handsome st... ...ed out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing. In some quarters, a snake or zigzag fence had been... ...to last. Business! Look at the green led- gers with red backs, like strong cricket-balls beaten flat; the court- guides directories, day-books, almana... ...ome man, and quite the gentleman in every respect. Property, I am told, in India. House and everything belonging to him, beautiful. Costly furniture o...

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...she not spare it? and had not her brother Joseph just brought her two from India? When Rebecca saw the two magnificent Cashmere shawls 19 Thackeray w... ... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ...h Sedley was twelve years older than his sister Amelia. He was in the East India Company’s Civil Service, and his name appeared, at the period of whic... ...shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. “Figs” was the fellow whom he despi... ... sir, break the bottle?” says Cuff to the little urchin, swinging a yellow cricket-stump over him. The boy had been instructed to get over the playgro... ..., the bravos of his companions had followed him everywhere; from the boys’ cricket-match to the garrison-races, he had won a hundred of triumphs; and ... ... But as for paying your creditors in full, I might as well hope to pay the National Debt. It is madness, sheer madness, to think of such a thing. Y ou... ... any time since the conclusion of the war, and 636 V anity Fair carry the national Goddem into every city of the Continent. The congregation of hat-b... ...n the street were already surrounded by per- sons smoking and drinking the national small-beer, the public rooms were in a cloud of smoke, and Mr. Jos...

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...ng country stretched away upon all sides. Locust trees and a single field of Indian corn gave it a foreign grace and interest; but the contours of the... ...n, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below anglified New York. The nam... ...hemselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota, and the Carolinas; th... ...sed by there in old days, at the foot’s pace of oxen, painfully urging their teams, and with no landmark but that unattainable evening 22 Across the ... ...our particular brand of luminary. We wore them buck- led to the waist upon a cricket belt, and over them, such was the rigour of the game, a buttoned ... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc...

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...ve, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the floor a... ... their doings during the holidays, where they had been, and what wonderful cricket they had played. A few new boys appeared, and with these presently ... ...answered them all quite willingly. One boy asked him whether he could play cricket. “No,” answered Philip. “I’ve got a club-foot.” The boy looked down... ... place at the end of the year. But the young man wrote that his father, an india-rubber merchant who lived in Slough, did not approve of the union, an... ...her condescending attitude towards patrio- tism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most si... ...emed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnac... ...e lady in Kensington Square told him that her husband was coming home from India on leave, and was a man, though worthy in every way, of a com- monpla... ...ng theology in Heidelberg, but the other theologi- cal students of his own nationality looked upon him with suspicion. He was very unorthodox, which f... ...He called the waiter and turned to Philip. “Just out from England? See any cricket?” Philip was a little confused at the unexpected question. “Cronsha...

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...NG THE CROW, SHOT AT THE CROW AND WOUNDED THE PIGEON; HOW THE DINGLEY DELL CRICKET CLUB PLAYED ALL MUGGLETON, AND HOW ALL MUGGLETON DINED AT THE DINGL... ... been shaken—greatly shaken— by the proceedings of the morning. ‘Are you a cricketer?’ in quired Mr. Wardle of the marksman. At any other time, Mr. W... ...t that it belonged to the surgeon. A few boys were making their way to the cricket field; and two or three shopkeepers who were standing at their doo... ...ard to sing, with great feeling and emphasis, the beau tiful and pathetic national air of ‘We won’t go home till morning, We won’t go home till morni... ..., like the marks of a black lead pencil beneath the softening influence of india rubber. His countenance had resumed its usual benign expression, ere ... ...nt of a small apple tree, to look picturesque, and commenced singing their national songs, which appeared by no means difficult of execution, inasmuch... ...ast; and the rough cart horses bestow a sleepy glance upon the smart coach team, which says as plainly as a horse’s glance can, ‘It’s all very fine to...

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...be taken beside her on the box of the cool coach of ceremony to which that team was harnessed. His proposal of marriage being accepted by the lady, th... ...e. They bring him in such vast sums of money that they are regarded as—hum—national benefits. Mr Merdle is the man of this time. The name of Merdle is... ...ave a particular pair of shoes; as, for example, shooting, shooting-shoes; cricket, cricket-shoes. Whereas, he believed that Henry Gowan had no partic... ...oke of his pipe, he told Pancks how and why he was occupied with the great National Department. ‘A hard case it has been, and a hard case it is on Doy... ... of his not being usually of a sanguine character. He thought of the great National Department, and of the delight it would be to him to see Doyce bet... ...nd young-looking even when that allowance was made. He was on absence from India, where he had a post that was soon to grow into a very good one. In s... ...to a very good one. In six months we were to be married, and were to go to India. I was to stay in the house, and was to be married from the house. No... .... It was her delight to expatiate on the style in which we were to live in India, and on the establishment we should keep, and the com- pany we should... ... and there you have us—official and effectual. It’s like a limited game of cricket. A field of outsiders are always going in to bowl at the Public Ser...

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...p the mirror to Russian officialdom and the effects it has produced on the national character. The plot of Dead Souls is simple enough, and is said to... ...nstitution, or look for a position in a bank, but he is an immortal inter- national type; we meet him everywhere; he is of all lands and of all times;... ...and of all times; he but takes different forms to suit the requirements of nationality and time.” Again, the work bears an interesting relation to Gog... ... covered over his sleeves, resumed the reins, and cheered on his threefold team (which, it may be said, had so completely succumbed to the influence o... ...ith daylight-clear argu- ments, yet they will rebound from his brain as an india- rubber ball rebounds from a flagstone. Nevertheless, wip- ing away t... ...as well-nigh complete. Merely flour- ishing his whip, Selifan spoke to the team no word of instruction, although the skewbald was as ready as usual to... ...t not to be dealt with, for he puts all sorts of rub- bish into his liquor—Indian wood and burnt cork and elderberry juice, the villain! Nevertheless,... ...onounced ro- tundity of figure) stepping backwards with all the elan of an india-rubber ball. From this the somewhat reassured Tientietnikov con- clud... ...s “Pray do not tease him any more”) and the cheerful candle-light, and the cricket chirp- ing in a corner, and the glass door, and the spring night wh...

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...rtillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? T... ...we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of yeomanry; and we had pluck and... ...was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He would by no means allow the burden of our national disgrace to be cast on one part of the nation. We were in- sulted,... ...r? The widow of a British officer killed nobly fighting for his country in India, was a person to be relied on for active and burning sympathy in a ma... ...nder-ring Stukely was famous for: as that England had saddled herself with India for the express purpose of better obeying the Com- mandments in Europ... ...ls are to kings. The cry for war was absolutely unanimous, and a supremely national cry, Everard Romfrey said, for it excluded the cot- ton-spinners. ... ...chincope. They’ve some grand procession in view there; Lespel wrote for my team; I suspect he’s for starting some new October races. He talks of half-... ...r giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, pup- pet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds... ...wer. Mr. Romfrey was of those who said to his countrymen, ‘Go yachting; go cricketing; go boat-racing; go shooting; go horseracing, nine months of the...

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................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...e never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; with small re- sult; yet with great glory for ‘six non-defea... ...edit of all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in t... ...ncourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitu- tion, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...east there used to be, some communication with the interior deep; they are national Institutions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal Inst... ...ste of the whip to rearing cours- ers, which makes them rear worse! When a team of Twenty-five Millions begins rearing, what is Lomenie’s whip? The Pa... ...nns have heard of Mirabeau: when an impatient Traveller complains that the team is insufficient, his Postilion answers, “Yes, Monsieur, the wheelers a... ...! The other captive Bodyguard is still circling the corpse of Jerome, amid Indian war-whooping; bloody Tilebeard, with tucked sleeves, brandishing his... ... not here, in the Cimmerian World-wreckage, with- out a sign, as the house-cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a Trump of Doom. “Monsieur,” sa...

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...ning: the months of office-work destroyed at a blow when the Government of India, at the last moment, added two feet to the width of the bridge, under... ...Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had thrown ... ... He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “So it has... ... are no facilities for even the smallest repairs. —Sailing Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list o... ...as Week, with racquets, with bundles of polo-sticks, with dear and bruised cricket-bats, with fox-terriers and saddles. The greater part of them wore ... ...kidars were what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- pipes made the national music of half their men. The native officers held bundles of polo-... ...m for an infinity of mistakes when a man begins to take liberties with his nationality; and I went down expect- ing things. A seven-foot dog-cart and ... ... a few other things which did not appear in the bills, un- der a system of cricket, foot-ball, and paper-chases, from four to five days a week, which ... ...’s all you want—know your men.” Cottar thought he knew them fairly well at cricket and the regimental sports, but he never realised the true inward- n...

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...e never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Wa- ters; with small result; yet with great glory for ‘six non- defe... ...edit of all kinds, for he had written Academic Prize Essays, struggled for India Companies, given dinners to Philosophes, and ‘realised a fortune in t... ...iancourt, de la Rochefoucault admire the English Constitution, the English National Character; would import what of it they can. Of what is lighter, e... ...st there used to be, some communi- cation with the interior deep; they are national Institu- tions in virtue of that. Had they even become personal In... ...ess, en- velop us: are we breaking down, then, into the black hor- rors of national bankruptcy? Great is Bankruptcy: the great bottomless gulf into wh... ...taste of the whip to rearing coursers, which makes them rear worse! When a team of Twenty-five Millions begins rearing, what is Lomenie’s whip? 85 Th... ...nns have heard of Mirabeau: when an impatient Traveller complains that the team is insufficient, his Postilion answers, “Yes, Monsieur, the wheelers a... ...! The other captive Bodyguard is still circling the corpse of Jerome, amid Indian war-whooping; bloody Tilebeard, with tucked sleeves, brandishing his... ...s not here, in the Cimmerian World- wreckage, without a sign, as the house-cricket might still chirp in the pealing of a Trump of Doom. “Monsieur,” sa...

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...et, crowded with mechanics exercising their trades, and with people of all nationalities who thronged this suburb of the Setch, re- sembling a fair, a... ...r heels. The earth hummed dully all about, and afar the air resounded with national dance tunes beaten by the clanging heels of their boots. But one s... ...to yourselves; examine all your equipments thoroughly,” he said; “put your teams and your tar-boxes* in order; test your weapons. Take not many clothe... ...ent; that they were breaking faith with the king, and violating all inter- national rights. “Tell your bishop from me and from all the Zaporozhtzi,” s... ...n face. Ivan Ivanovitch traversed the court- yard, in which were collected Indian doves, fed by Ivan Nikiforovitch’s own hand, melon-rinds, vegetables... ...ilent grass be- 193 Taras Bulba & Other Tales come more fragrant, and the crickets, unharmonious cava- liers of the night, strike up their rattling s... ...utskirts of the town; but he sold it, and with the purchase-money bought a team of brown horses and a little carriage in which he drove about to stay ... ...on indicated a Southern origin, but to what particular nation he belonged, India, Greece, or Persia, no one could say with certainty. Of tall, almost ...

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... was killed, 7 Yo n g e and he himself severely injured, in a raid of the Indians far west, and he was brought home by an old friend of the fam- ily.... ...ak. She was not happy at heart about her two boys. Kester was a soldier in India, not actually unsteady, but not what her own brothers had been, and E... ...Though to me the question is made easy, for Sir Jasper would never hear of cricket for his daughters, scarcely of hunting, and we have taken away Vale... ... her to be even with the gangers that our fellows generally get some after cricket, or for a tuck-out.” “Not Fergus Merrifield?” “Oh no; he’s captain,... ...gether subdued and altered, and had allowed her daughter to receive a good National school training; but with the recovery of health, activity, and vo... ...here was one whose father walked him up and down and wouldn’t let him play cricket, and went over all the old questions with him. I should never have ... ... should make fools of ourselves in order to stave off the establishment of national education, as if we could, or as if it was worth doing.” “Then why... ...s the dearest, most devoted of fathers, till he and I were devoured by the Indians. If they had com- pleted their operations on my scalp, it would hav... ... she had made to come and sing for a per- son who was giving lectures upon national music. “‘I looked at some of her songs,’ little Lida said in her h...

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...er out immediately after dinner, looking first into the play-fields, where cricket was of course going on among the bigger boys, but where Mary looked... ...where Mary looked in vain for her friend’s sons. “No, they are not much of cricketers,” said her brother; “they are small for it yet, and only take th... .... The weather was very sultry, forbidding exertion on the part of all save cricketers; but there was a match at Redford, and Kenminster was eager abou... ...nd this had never been forgiven. The young couple had gone out to the West Indian isles, where the early home of her husband had been, and where he he... ...ht to the pound. (H. S. H.) 6th.—Mr. B. keeps a bloodhound trained to hunt Indians, and has six pounds of prime beef steaks for it every day . (Emma.)... ...eculations, coupled with judicious stock-jobbing among the distressed West Indians, after the emancipation. “He was a sinister-looking old fellow,” en... ...ies?” cried the little ones. “Zebras if we like,” said Jock. “We’ll have a team.” “Can’t,” growled Bobus. “Why not? They can be bought!” “Not tamed. T... ...e.” “Get in, I say,” cried Jock, who was making demonstra- tions with the “national weapon” much as if he would have liked to lay it about their shoul...

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...on what great bodies of men have done, and the crises of his life refer to national crises. Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, an... ...nt of what manner of persons they were and what they did. We have the same national mind expressed for us again in their literature, in epic and lyric... ...n which the Dorian dwelt. The Chinese pagoda is plainly a Tartar tent. The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subter- ranean hous... ...age was enjoined, or stringent laws and customs, tending to invigorate the national bond, were the check on the old rovers; and the cumulative values ... ... path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light by ... ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, g... ...l and of *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for ... ... that we should be her fools and playmates. We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball, but not a berry for our philosophy. Direct strokes she never ... ...will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass, in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as l...

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...e kept its pol- luted atmosphere intact in one of the spice islands of the Indian ocean. The man who lay on the ledge of the grating was even chilled.... ...and his keys is where I put this thumb; and here at my wrist they keep the national razor in its case— the guillotine locked up.’ The other man spat s... ...The boat was filled with the cocked hats to which Mr Meagles entertained a national objection; and the wearers of those cocked hats landed and came up... ...i- als: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical Englis... ... and a letter of instructions that extinguished him. It was this spirit of national efficiency in the Circumlocu- tion Office that had gradually led t... ...ere used to be a poem when I learnt lessons, some- thing about Lo the poor Indians whose something mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, ... ...g his head. ‘Y ou don’t know that girl’s passionate and proud character. A team of horses couldn’t draw her back now; the bolts and bars of the old Ba... ...ave a particular pair of shoes; as, for example, shooting, shooting-shoes; cricket, cricket-shoes. Whereas, he believed that Henry Gowan had no partic... ... and there you have us—official and effectual. It’s like a limited game of cricket. A field of outsiders are always going in to bowl at the Public Ser...

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...e meaning, I think, stands out plainly enough, unpal- atable enough to our national pride. This thing from first to last was made abroad. Of all that ... ... while our young men of muscle and courage were braving the dangers of the cricket field. The motor-car and its engine was being worked out “over ther... ...ere any reason to suppose that our Navy is going to keep above the general national level in these things? Is the Navy bright? The arrival of M. Bléri... ...people all told. It is difficult to see whence the necessary impetus for a national renascence is to come.... The universities are poor and spiritless... ...d round to Spain and into the Mediterranean. And so by leisurely stages to India. And the East Indies.... I find my study unattractive to-day. OFF OFF... ...igrating after his food, camping, homeless, as to this day are many of the Indians and Esquimaux in the Hudson Bay Territory. Then began agriculture, ... ...enuous artifi- cial banking back that migrations on a far huger scale from India into Africa, and from China and Japan into Australia and America are ... ...t.” And he pours into our country every year a fresh supply of gentlemanly cricketing youths, gap- ingly unprepared—unless they have picked up a broad... ...safe admirations, his thin, evasive discussion, his sham en- thusiasms for cricket, for fly-fishing, for perpendicular ar- chitecture, for boyish trai...

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...our’n. Hark awhile.’ At a repetition of the call, the waggoner stopped his team. After a few minutes, a man appeared panting on the bank above them, d... ...ir former comradeship; tickled by a recollection of his old schoolfellow’s India-rubber mind. Mr. Raikes stood about a head under him. He had extremel... ... to one behind him, ‘ And you shall have little Rosey !’ They were clad in cricketing costume, and exhibited the health and manners of youthful Englis... ...olmate to the winds, in the pres- 108 Evan Harrington ence of these young cricketers; for he had a prognostication. The door was open, and the compan... ... was demanded. Mr. Raikes addressed the meeting. The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety. It did not offend... ...rked deference to Evan, induced Mr. Raikes contemptuously to glance at our national blindness to the true diamond, and worship of the mere plumes in w... ...a youthful Englishman; and the Countess dieted the vanity according to the national- ity. With good wine to wash it down, one can swallow any- thing. ...