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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... ...ling loss so sensibly. But her own champion was now preparing to enter the lists. The mirth of Brom, which had been again excited, though in a much sm... ...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...

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...d 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and his cheeks were redder than cricket in the sun. He said he read all the reports from India, and asked h... ..., after the race out to tea at a distant village, too late in the year for cricket, too early for regular football, suited Matey, going at long stride... ...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...m he stationed beside himself, rather off his battle-front, as at point at cricket, not quite so far removed. Two boys at his heels piled ammunition. ... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ... to condemn Lord Ormont in his quarrel with the Commissioner of one of the Indian provinces, who had the support of the Governor of his Presidency and... ...ord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.’ ‘We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris. You... ... they ‘d like the world to be. We don’t agree about a lady. You ‘re in the lists, lance in rest, all for chivalry. You ‘re a man, and a young man. Hav...

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...uld be accounted for at any moment. But he had heard McT urk openly deride cricket—even house-matches; Beetle’s views on the honor of the house he kne... ...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ... tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They’d never understand. They play cricket, and say: ‘Yes sir,’ and ‘O, sir,’ and ‘No, sir.’” “Never mind that... ...it was a blazing July afternoon, and as they ought to have been at a house cricket-match, they began to renew their acquaintance, intimate and un- hol... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ... the notices, where a newspaper cutting was thumb- tacked between callover lists. “By gum!” quoth Stalky, uncovering as he read. “It’s old Duncan—Fat-... ...out Fat-Sow, of course. What’s Crandall done. sir?” “I’ve brought over an Indian paper that his mother sent me. It was rather a—hefty, I think you sa... ...bel of matters personal, provincial, and imperial, pieces of old call-over lists, and new policies, cut short by the roar of a Burmese gong, and we we...

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...h in the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” Holland’s Plutarch’s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which th... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right an... ... little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, the sa... ...Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I ... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ...s talk. ‘Thunder away at it!’ “‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like fi...

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...n the bottomless gulf of his paunch.” —Holland’ s Plutarch’ s Morals. “The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which t... ...ere now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs—commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and ... ...ittle tinkling tags something like the stained porcu- pine quills round an Indian moccasin. There was a hole or slit in the middle of this mat, as you... ...e- landic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of un- couth names. But ... ... That’s more than ye, ye great gods, ever were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes! I will... ... talk. ‘Thun- der away at it!’ ‘Aye, aye, sir,’ said Steelkilt, merry as a cricket. ‘Lively, boys, lively, now!’ And with that the pump clanged like f...

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...n of a “military bootmaker” (“cobbler” in the vulgar tongue) of Dover, and lists his various examination proofs of a high proficiency in chemistry and... ...o astronomers. Afterwards, for the space of seven years, save for the pass lists of the Lon- don University , in which he is seen to climb slowly to a... ... to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cricketer,” he said. I suppose I am slender, slender to what some people wo... ...Some of the things are quite unreadable to me—though my fam- ily, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani fr... ... don’t want to know. I attended him for a broken finger—Married and Single cricket match—and that’s when I struck the non- sense. That’s all. But it s... ...by “these here things they rode,” there is no telling. Larvae, perhaps, or crickets, or the little beetles that elude us so abun- dantly. There was a ...

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... German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there ... ...er the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded... ...spun; in an other, a quantity of linsey woolsey just from the loom; ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoon... ...abod was too con scious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would “doub... ... signs of life occurred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bull frog from a neighboring ...

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...s, and Plato has the added glory of that acquired beauty, that bust of the Indian Bacchus which is now indissolubly 6 The New Machiavelli mingled wit... ...y waggons along the great military road to the beleaguered fortress on the Indian frontier beyond the worn places that were dismal swamps. And there w... ...gnificently en- gineered ascent to a fortress on the cliffs commanding the Indian reservation. My games upon the floor must have spread over several y... ...ge, and the local gentry would occasionally enliven the place with valiant cricket matches for a hundred guineas a side, to the vast ex- citement of t... ...an hour of my bedtime. I spent my half holidays at school in order to play cricket and football. This, and a pretty voracious appetite for miscellaneo... ...ade of the huge adjustments of the nineteenth century? Flack was the chief cricketer on the staff; he belonged to that great cult which pretends that ... ... and forensic 213 H G Wells “crushers.” The New Year and Birthday honours lists are al- ways very sagely and exhaustively considered, and anecdotes a...

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...s down Her voice among the aisles Incites the timid prayer Of the minutest cricket, The most unworthy flower. When all the children sleep She turns as... ...ing God. LXXVII ’T WAS later when the summer went Than when the cricket came, And yet we knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home... ...knew that gentle clock Meant nought but going home. ’T was sooner when the cricket went Than when the winter came, Yet that pathetic pendulum Keeps es... ...l front And mists are carved away,— Behold the atom I preferred To all the lists of clay! XX I HAVE no life but this, T o lead it here; Nor a... ...eak, And blaze the butterflies! C ’T IS whiter than an Indian pipe, ’T is dimmer than a lace; No stature has it, like a fog, ... ...r pearls 52 ’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy! 9 ’T is whiter than an Indian pipe, 228 ’T was a long parting, but the time 153 ’T was comfort i...

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... 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... ...t’s as good as my own curries in India.” “Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish,” said Miss Rebecca. “I am sure everything must be good that co... ...ck Exchange, where they love all sorts of practical jokes). “They are real Indian, I assure you,” said he. “Sambo, give Miss Sharp some water.” The pa... ...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 ... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became 358 V anit... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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... stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in... ...d by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers once came galloping before hell-for-leathe... ...y gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb. She found beauty in the child... ...inclair Lewis preparations for her first party, the housewarming. She made lists on every envelope and laundry-slip in her desk. She sent orders to Mi... ...t hopefully. “All right,” she yawned. With hazy eyes she tried to read the lists of characters, which were hidden among lifeless advertisements of pia... ...quito, a heat-weary conversation starting and dying, the precise rhythm of crickets, the thud of moths against the screen—sounds that were a distilled... ... and Elman’s violin. They’ll be only the lovelier against the thrumming of crickets in the stubble on an autumn day. “I can laugh now and be serene…I ...

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...hich his light active form, great agility, and high spirit made him excel. Cricket, riding, running-races, all the school amusements were his delight;... ...f this period and of a good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work ... ...slurring nor neglecting his studies, did not enjoy anything so much as the cricket-field. However, there the weight of his character, backed by his po... ...ion; who had, moreover, strong opinions derived from experience of the Red Indians in Upper Canada—namely, that to reclaim the young, and educate them... ... sympathise as I ought with those who are suffering so dreadfully from the Indian Mutiny, or the commercial failure, or the great excitement and agita... ...n my mind about it. Sometimes I think these Banks Islanders may be evange- lists beyond the limits of their own islands. So many of the natives of oth... ...l probability, sought to impose an English line of thought and religion on Indians and Africans. Even English dress was thought to be almost essential...

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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... ...ers who had recently come home from India. There were men of Havelock’s among them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the C... ...have in my iron safe, nearly four hun- dred pounds of theirs; the agents have nearly a hundred The Uncommercial Traveller 75 pounds more and many of ... ...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... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe...

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...eports of experiments, as full and as prompt as the telegraphic reports of cricket in our more sportive atmosphere, will go about the world. All this ... ...d, “but some of our earthly games have a fine side. There is a game called cricket. It is a fine, generous game.” “Our boys play that, and men too. Bu... ... against the man who was fool enough and cheap enough to become an expert. Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards——. Y ou will find clubs and a class of me... ...nality, and into the natural trap of patriotic conceit. The dissent of the Indian and Colonial governing class to the first crude applications of libe... ...wly with deleterious com- modities, as the Americans do with most of their Indians; you may incite it to wear clothing to which it is not accus- tomed... ...ding of a Utopia should end with a swelling heart and clear resolves, with lists of names, formation of committees, and even the commencement of subsc...

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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... ... 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... ...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... ...urious odds and ends of float- ing fact and gossip; no “rumors” about anything or anybody; no prognostications or prophecies about anything or any- bo...

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...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... ...d, the one tuft on the crown standing stiffly forth like the feather in an Indian’s scalp lock; Broderson, vaguely combing at his long beard with a pe... ...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... ...ilma to action. Then ensued a most delicious week. Armed with formi- dable lists, written by Annixter on hotel envelopes, they two descended upon the ...

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...dy Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain... ...his pocket money, to the amount of five and threepence, to the T ockahoopo Indians. Oswald, my second (ten and a half ), is the child who contributed ... ...ed absolutely ferocious with discontent. At the mention of the T ockahoopo Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful ... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...n red tape and green ferret; in pocket books, al manacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden—pen knives, scis... ...tars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Vol. One soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b...

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...spark died that should have been a conflagra- tion. From the interior came Indians with subtle poisons, naked bodies, and painted idols; from the sea ... ... ago. In population it is a happy compro- mise, for Portuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with the Spanish. Although th... ...t young man was near. “I’m sure you read everything.” “I confine myself to cricket and crime,” said Hirst. “The worst of coming from the upper classes... ...coat, swam down the room in imitation of the voluptuous dreamy dance of an Indian maiden dancing before her Rajah. The tune marched; and Miss Allen ad... ...orld. He went on giving orders, arrang- ing with Mrs. Chailey, writing out lists, and every now and then he went upstairs and put something quietly on...

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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... ...ty at the vicarage, and two girls came, daughters of a retired major in an Indian regiment who had lately settled in Blackstable. They were very prett... ...st be treated with respect and which were in low water . Now and then long lists of figures were given him to add up. He at- tended lectures for his 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... ...Medical School. Just inside the door a num- ber of notices were pinned up, lists of lectures, football fixtures, and the like; and these he looked at ... ... say ,” she told him, “as there’s another lady here whose husband’s in the Indian Civil.” “I wouldn’t let that disturb me if I were you,” said Philip.... ...ly the question recurred, but flung now like a challenging gauntlet in the lists: Why not order today? “I’m the press representative of Lynn and Sedle...

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... to appreciate as Anglicanly religious. On the step of the return to their Indian clime, they speak of the hatted sect, which is most, or most commerc... ...f the riddle of their power to vanquish. In some apparent allu- sion to an Indian story of a married couple who successfully made their way, he accoun... .... Odd, to read his name and Mrs. Burman Radnor’s at separate places in the lists! Well, we’ll hope. It’s a case for a compromise of sentiments and cla... ...y we do, or we should not be where we are. But what is it we do (excepting cricket, of course) which others cannot do? Colney asks; and he ex- cludes ... ...e a reluctant appeal to figures, and it hung upon the bolder exhibition of lists and tables as to whether he was beaten; and if beaten, he was mor- al... ...appointed Lady Blachington’s third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor. These are the deluge days when even ar... ...he drowsiness of beer had stretched vari- ous hulks under trees. Ponderous cricket lumbered half-alive. Flabby fun knocked-up a yell. And it was rathe... ...g to quit the expedition; and Mr. Semhians has done a marvel or two in the cricket-field: Old England looks up where she can. What is painfully extrao...

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...dy Dedlock’s own windows is alternately a lead coloured view and a view in Indian ink. The vases on the stone terrace in the foreground catch the rain... ...his pocket money, to the amount of five and threepence, to the T ockahoopo Indians. Oswald, my second (ten and a half ), is the child who contributed ... ...ed absolutely ferocious with discontent. At the mention of the T ockahoopo Indians, I could really have supposed Eghert to be one of the most baleful ... ...u may have observed, Miss Summerson,” said Mrs. Pardiggle, “in some of the lists to which I have referred, in the possession of our esteemed friend Mr... ...n red tape and green ferret; in pocket books, al manacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden—pen knives, scis... ...stars. He could as 289 Bleak House – Dickens soon play at leap frog or at cricket as change into a cricket or a frog himself. But he is so much the b... ...at its nearest point glancing through a meadow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from...

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...t ago. It is a lovely morning, cloudless, smoking hot, the breeze not yet arisen. Looking west, in 30 Robert Louis Stevenson front of our new house, ... ...m I was all the time wrangling, proposed the vote of thanks to me with a certain handsomeness; I assure you I had earned it…. Haggard and the great Ab... ...ildren. I had started barefoot; Belle had soon to pull off her gala shoes and stockings; the mud was as deep as to our knees, and so slippery that (mo... ...orn to thank you. I have had no review by Gosse, none by Birrell; another time if I have a letter in the Times, you might send me the text as well; al... ...what Belle had come to sketch. On through quite empty roads; the houses deserted, never a gun to be seen; and at last a drum and a penny whistle playi... ...them for friendship’s sake, and try to find toler- able what is vital for your friend. I cannot forbear chal- 217 V ailima Letters lenging you to it,...

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...y Griffith, belonged to a naval family. Her father had been lost in a West Indian hurricane at sea, and her uncle, Admiral Sir John Griffith, was the ... ...l- ing; indeed, to this day I recollect the man, wont to slay the harmless cricket on the hearth, and in a storm at sea pursued 11 Yo n g e by a giga... ...uld make a man of him. There was Griffith in the fifth form and a splendid cricketer, but Clarence could stand up to him now, and Harrovian exploits w... ... any longer, he walked towards Wapping, bought a Southwester, examined the lists of shipping, and entered into conversation with one or two sailors ab... ..., however, it was a disease almost unknown and unprecedented except in its Indian abode, whence it had ad- vanced city by city, seaport by seaport, sw... ...n- nounced that he had accepted various invitations to country houses, for cricket matches, archery meetings, and the like; nor did he even make it cl...

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...roine, to the ruin- ous precincts? Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket cried in my very title-page? and could it have been possible for me... ...—Sometimes this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes he swung them perpendicu... ...nd Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gigantic Dane, whom he slew in the lists in the Holy Land, on a quarrel touching the chastity of the Emperor’s... ...e himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermission of ag... ...lter Scott at the head of the party, who moved up the pathway in single or Indian file, Waverley being placed nearest to their leader. He moved with g...

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...ld-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Rawdon Crawley rode out of the ranks of his company, a... ..., 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 ... ...gs of exultation and gratitude, bereavement and sickening dismay, when the lists of the regimental losses were gone through, and it became known wheth... ...t, even now, feel at second-hand this breathless pause of expectation. The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst a... ... sum, as George’s guardian, Dobbin proposed to put out at 8 per cent in an Indian house of agency. Mr. Sedley, who thought the Major had some roguish ... ...y dear, old silly man; and that you shall be an Irish Secretary, or a West Indian Gov- ernor: or a Treasurer, or a Consul, or some such thing.” “Posti... ...ine carriage, and her fine horses, and her name on half the public charity-lists of the town, was a lonely, miserable, persecuted old maid. She though...

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...he shies up, and is safe to catch. IV Here’s where the lads of the village cricket: I was a lad not wide from here: Couldn’t I whip off the bail from ... ...e lose to win. III The beggar-king, November, frets: His tatters rich with Indian dyes Goes hugging: we our season’s debts Pay calmly, of the Spring ... ... we do not dread Competitors; we rather give them hail And greeting in the lists where we may fail: Must, if we bear an aim beyond the head! My better... ...r white dairy Keeping sweet the cream-pan; and there the boys from school, Cricketing below, rushed brown and red with sunshine; O the dark translucen... ...is fate; and she who urged the start Abides the race. III For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swif... ... that mask They wear for your cool mind historically, And blaze like black lists of a present plague? But in that light behold them we. XXIII —Your sp... ...ions’ mad revolts, Draws down; the midnight hovers to descend; And dire as Indian noons of ulcer heat Anticipating tempest and the bolts, Hangs curtai... ...nfidently to cling. And when brown corn Swayed armied ranks with softened cricket song, With gold necks bent for any zephyr’s kiss; When vine-roots d...

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...the fool, willy-nilly,— Children of wisdom,—remember the word!” And on the Indian breeze as it booms, And in the depths of Egyptian tombs, Only the sa... ... Neither lamb nor steer, But the altars reek with human gore.” And he lists, and ev’ry word he weighs, While his eager soul drinks in each soun... ...f old we’ll hasten, blest.” 1797. 193 Goethe THE GOD AND THE BAYADERE. AN INDIAN LEGEND. [This very fine Ballad was also first given in the Horen.] M... ...und the laurels are twining, Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket is heard, Say, whose grave can this be, with life by all the Immort... ...for having ransacked your presses? That grand dressing-gown, cover’ d with Indian flowers all over, Made of the finest calico, lined with excellent fl...

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...light, Even as a summer sky ‘s without a cloud: I ‘m fond of fire, and crickets, and all that, A lobster salad, and champagne, and chat. ‘T ... ...ystal and marble, plate and porcelain, Had done their work of splendour; Indian mats And Persian carpets, which the heart bled to stain, Ove... ...e withdrew. Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring; Though Wilberforce, at last, has made... ...espatches. Oh, ye great bulletins of Bonaparte! Oh, ye less grand long lists of kill’d and wounded! Shade of Leonidas, who fought so hearty, ... ...ty thousand slain. Glory and triumph o’er her aspect burst, As an East Indian sunrise on the main. These quench’d a moment her ambition’s thir...

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...cal characters, tables of Christian names and their derivations, botanical lists, maps, and drawings—all in such confusion, that once, when Helen atte... ...ve been to the house to fetch them, and now the boys are going away to the cricket-ground, and the girls are to have a famous game at play.’ Mrs. Hazl... ...a doll in the middle of it, a little dish of money-cowries, and another of Indian shot, the seed of the mahogany tree, some sea-eggs, a false book mad...

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...of the biggest of all extinct birds, in a little canoe in the midst of the Indian Ocean. If old Dawson had known that! It was worth four years’ salary... ...ed to and fro from the College with little slips of mnemonics in his hand, lists of crayfish appendages, rabbits’ skull-bones, and vertebrate nerves, ... ...annels upon the plains of Burmah and Hindostan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and below the hurrying wat... ... to games. And thence to my figure and complexion. “You ought to be a good cricketer,” he said. I suppose I am slender, slender to what some people wo... ...Some of the things are quite unreadable to me—though my fam- ily, with its Indian Civil Service associations, has kept up a knowledge of Hindustani fr... ...bling at the thing he meant to do. The air was full of a minute clamour of crickets and murmurings, of the infinitesimal shoutings of little living th... ...ite or crimson black, and the air was a-quiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightin- gales singing unseen in the depths of the trees. Ther...

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...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,... ... glory—so much so that foreigners marvelled at it), peasants on the census lists who had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the renderi... ...had ended their earthly careers were nevertheless, on the rendering of new lists, returned equally with the living, to the end that the courts might b... ... and camphor. Also, to while away the hours, he made new and more detailed lists of the souls which he had bought, perused a work by the Duchesse de l... ...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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...from this distance.’ ‘There’s the cleric heading his little boys and their cricket, and there are the tuneful party in the fern on the opposite side. ... ...am, or ‘the Pi- rate,’ being possessed by this idea on account of his West Indian voyages. At any rate, she was determined not to be accepted or ackno... ... to it and practised for it like a knight for his first en- counter in the lists, her sole care being to distinguish herself with her racket. To her m... ...me a steady young clerk used to be con- tented after hours with playing at cricket in the summer, or learning the flute in the winter—and a great nuis...

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... and applies not to my walk or my ways now that I am called forth into the lists. Mr. Melchisedek Maultext compared my misfortune in that matter to th... ...elf; while Dickie Sludge, or Flibbertigibbet, as he called the boy, drew a cricket to the smith’s feet, and looked up in his face with features which,... ... “Thou business at court!” they both exclaimed at once, “and thou make the Indian voyage!” 165 Sir Walter Scott “Why, T ressilian,” said the younger ... ...at she hath aching and heaviness of the head a throbbing at the heart, and lists not to be disturbed. Fear not; they will take the hint, and trouble t... ... for fear, nay, even for uncer- tainty, and she slept. Yes, she slept. The Indian sleeps at the stake in the intervals between his tortures; and menta... .... This chieftain was, as right and rea- son craved, the first to enter the lists, and passing the Gallery at the head of his myrmidons, kissed the hil...

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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... ...to an unfortunate fourth; —and in the morning she would work hard with her lists, seeing who had come to her and who had stayed away, and arranging wh... ...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 ... ...f anyone,’ said Arthur Fletcher, ‘that she should immolate herself like an Indian widow,—and for the sake of such a man as that! Of course I have no r... .... And so the Government was formed, and the crisis was again over, and the lists which the newspapers had been publishing for the last three days were...

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...ry moment ringing more clearly, until a knight in pink armor rode into the lists with his visor down, and riding a tremendous dun charger, which he ma... ...appearants and linning (which was gen- erally a pink or blew shurt, with a cricketer or a dansuse pat- tern) rather a contrast to the dinjy and whistk... ...id Louis XVI., looking rather awkward. “Approach, Tatua.” And the gigantic Indian strode up, and stood undaunted before the first magistrate of the Fr... ...the denizen of the primaeval forests. The redoubted chief of the Nose-ring Indians was deco- rated in his war-paint, and in his top-knot was a peacock... ...ing. “The English are braves, though their faces are white,” re- plied the Indian. “Tatua shot the raging Wolfe of the English; but the other wolves c... ...ht, as the locks of the Jew- ish maiden whom the knight had rescued in the lists of 282 Thackeray Templestowe. A bit of Rowena’s hair was in Sir Wilf... ...tones at, and he keeps the chaps’ coats when there’s a fight, or a game at cricket.—Well, Hicks, how’s your mother? what’s the row now?” “I believe, m... ...mingled with the mane of his charger, which backed to the other end of the lists; then galloping back to the place where Jemimarann was seated, he beg...

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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.... ...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... ...bolic. History was delightful to me for the search for true knights. I had lists of them, drawings if possible, but I never 91 Yo n g e could indoctr... ... 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,... ...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 ... ...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... ... her a good deal of curious information about Bernard’s bevy of figures in Indian cos- tumes; and having the offer of such a strong arm as the General...

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... 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... ...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, ... ... and cradle and in folk-songs and village gossip—Erse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues, Ca- nadian French—but I mean that also En... ...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... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ...safe admirations, his thin, evasive discussion, his sham en- thusiasms for cricket, for fly-fishing, for perpendicular ar- chitecture, for boyish trai... ...iberal intelligences could and do still understand Russians wanting votes, Indians wanting votes, women want- ing votes. The history of nineteenth-cen... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v...

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...o the new perception of affairs, to the real drift of life, as the game of cricket with the wheel as a wicket would have to the des- 23 H G Wells tin... ...es of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives in great abundance. He infers from this that interference... ...xample, or the decision of some great inter- national issue at baseball or cricket. This, one would say, we have made out of that, and so point the Ne... ...ed, ill-planned teaching, and years of preoccupation with rowing-boats and cricket. The more extreme examples of this type will say in a tone of manly... ... facts, heights of mountains, for example, popu- lations of countries, and lists of obsolete manufactures and obsolete trade conditions. Any one who w... ...l politician, is of the utmost convenience. And there are endless affairs, lists, gatherings, when the only alterna- tive to rank is scramble. For mys... ...ally necessary as examination papers which merely demand defi- nitions and lists and bald facts are bad. And then there might be discussions—if the Pr...

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...n than because no mother can bear to believe her daughter no longer on the lists for matrimony? Our dear mother does not tell herself that this is the... ... days for instruction in the three R’s, and for a sort of popular lecture. Cricket was to succeed the singing, and novelty car- ried the day, but only... ...date had not gone back far enough to establish that he had not died in the Indian war. It was fear that predominated with her, there were many mo- men... ...all dream, all delusion, and waste of feeling, while you are lying in your Indian grave, more mine than you can ever be living be as it may,— ... ...hed to see how entirely he had recovered.” “Then you went through all that Indian war?” “Yes; with Sir Stephen.” “You must show me all your medals! Ho... ... Stephana’s first words; and whether she taught Grace new stitches, played cricket with Conrade, made boats for Cyril, prattled with Lady Temple, or s... ... She has been teaching the boys such a delightful game; so much nicer than cricket, for I can play with them.” Alick and Rachel could not but exchange...

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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.... ...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, ... ...ng mind! If a few thousand persons moving in Society, could only go and be Indians, I would put my name down directly; but as, moving in Society, we c... ...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... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

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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... ...illet 1789 (in Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 137.) Subscriptions are opened; Lists are formed, more accurate than Elie’s; ha- rangues are delivered. A B... ...ld:—alas, so soon, to be disen- chanted, to be pitched shamefully over the lists as a Barber’s Bason! Gibbon ‘could wish to shew him’ (in this ejected... ...near: in such number that the honourable mention can only be performed in ‘lists published at stated epochs. ’ Each gives what he can: the very cordwa... ...! 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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...ys if you only stroll in upon your friends as you might stroll in to see a cricket match; and even then not simply for the pleasure of the thing, but ... ... with some afterthought of self-improvement, as though you had come to the cricket match to bet. It was his theory that people saw each other too freq... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...- tions as are felt on an English green on the arrival of a pro- fessional cricketer, or round an English billiard table during a match between Robert... ...g his neck “to have the portrait full of shad- ows,” and draping him in an Indian gown hired expressly for the purpose, he was preoccupied about no me...

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...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... ...illet 1789 (in Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 137.) Subscriptions are opened; Lists are formed, more accurate than Elie’s; harangues are delivered. A Bod... ...orld:—alas, so soon, to be disenchanted, to be pitched shamefully over the lists as a Barber’s Bason! Gibbon ‘could wish to shew him’ (in this ejected... ...ar: in such number that the honourable mention can only be per- formed in ‘lists published at stated epochs. ’ Each gives what he can: the very cordwa... ...! 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... ...ich may never arrive. Few years ago Bouille was to have led a French East- Indian Expedition, and reconquered or conquered Pondicherri and the Kingdom...