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...ers to prevent these slave traders from carrying out their pernicious trade and no doubt the Arab captains thought our merchant ship was a Royal Nav... ...d saw the same stars which twinkled in the firmament over England, but here they seemed brighter. Crickets chirped and bats swooped amongst the mang... ...sed by heavy fire from the garrison’s batteries and the mutineers did not appear to have intrepid captains to lead by example. Trumpets blowing the ... ...England after India was granted Independence from British Rule in 1947. Audrey now lives in leafy Surrey near Epsom Downs, the home of the famous De...

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...laboratories and several acres of land near his pri- vate residence on the Surrey hills to the strenuous and vio- lent completion—Banghurst fashion—of... ...He had invented a practicable flying machine, and every day down among the Surrey hills the life-sized model was get- ting ready. And when it was read... ...ng Ma- chine,” and “Suicide of the Impostor.” But in the district of North Surrey the reception of the news was tempered by a perception of unusual ae... ... 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... ... 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 ... ...rough the air like a flight of young swallows, swift and easy. I guess the captains tried not to think too clearly what the real thing would be like. ...

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...h him. Let’s go down to the Harbour Arms and see some of those blessed old captains getting drunk.” “Short of sugar, O’ Man,” said Mr. Polly, slapping... ...- led, and his dark grey eyes were deeply set. His lightest inter- est was cricket, but he did not take that lightly. His chief holiday was to go to a... ...ricket, but he did not take that lightly. His chief holiday was to go to a cricket match, which he did as if he was going to church, and he watched cr... ...ven, and presently Mr. Polly was riding a little unstably along unfamiliar Surrey roads, wondering always what was round the next corner, and marking ... ...ower and daffodils, and so to the new cem- etery and a distant view of the Surrey hills, and round by the gasworks to the canal to the factory, that p... ...onless reddish eye, and wisps of straight hair strayed from under the blue cricket cap he wore pulled down obliquely over the latter. He spat between ...

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...n advance of him wearing crape rosettes, as did the horses. We were in the cricket-field, where Dipwell was playing its first match of the season, and... ... to troop away while the game was hot, and sur- round my father, flung the cricket-ball into the midst and hit two or three of the men hard. My father... ...parture. John stood like a soldier. We drove away from a cheering crowd of cricketers and farm-labourers, as if discharged from a great gun. ‘A royal ... ...t write word to that effect, and attend punctually to business duties, for Surrey House was not an almshouse, either for the sons of gentlemen of high... ...accident took away from Mr. Salter the responsibility of delivering him at Surrey House, but that he, Heriot, was bound, for Mr. Salter’s sake, to con... ...hree, and that’s not enough for him. Six months back a man comes over from Surreywards, a farm he calls Dipwell, and asks after you, Harry; rigmaroles... ...orrid Admiralty, fears pitching and tossing for post- 335 George Meredith captains’ wives. And William away, I ‘m distracted, and the Admiralty’s hai...

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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 ... ...r sports. On October 31, the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, then Arch- deacon of Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the mor... ...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... ...ich I might wish to be returned to. Now I have long wished to indoctrinate captains of men-of-war with our notions of the right way to settle disputes... ...lence from being used. For, in the years 1869 and 1870, if not before, the captains of the labour ships, finding that a sufficient supply of willing n... ...ered on those seas where the ‘Southern Cross’ was a welcome visitor, these captains sometimes told the men that ‘the Bishop gave no pipes and tobacco,...

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...ppearance and manners of gentlemen—a popular phenomenon which never existed on earth out of fiction and a police report. Again: I wonder why people ar... ...t. Again: I wonder why people are always blown into the Surrey Canal, and into no other piece of water! Why do people get up early and go out in group... ...t would be an insufficient explanation, because even then they might sometimes put themselves in the way of being blown into the Regent’s Ca- nal, ins... ...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... ...ium used to be given with each boy—too often to some greedy brute of a drunken skipper, who disappeared before the term of apprenticeship was out, if ... ...emium at all? That they are also much esteemed in the Royal Navy, which they prefer, ‘because everything is so neat and clean and or- derly’? Or, is t...

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...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... ...ley. It evidently amused the old gentleman. “Y ou’re terrible fellows, you Captains,” said he, tying up his papers; and his face wore something like a... ...ars to her name in the East India stockholders’ list. She had a mansion in Surrey, and a house in Portland Place. The name of the rich West India heir... ...m twelve when this brief meet- ing and colloquy took place between the two captains. A coach, into which Captain Osborne’s servant put his master’s de... ...uldn’t mind changing with you,” he added, with a bit- ter smile. “How many captains in the regiment have two thou- sand pounds to the fore, think you?...

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...(of the names in two syllables with accent on the first), and their Danish captains, and it may be but a remnant of high-nosed old Norman Lord de Ware... ...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 ... ...; which succulent calling had carried him down to near upon the borders of Surrey and Sussex, some miles beyond the new big house of a Mister whose na... ...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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...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... ...er, bore witness against him, but did not escape scot free, for one of the captains spoke to him in scathing tones of censure. Whenever my mother was ... ...able, and learnt that his brother was supposed to be staying at a villa in Surrey, where there were to be private theatricals. He had forwarded the le... ...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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...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... ...ley. It evidently amused the old gentleman. “Y ou’re terrible fellows, you Captains,” said he, tying up his papers; and his face wore something like a... ...ars to her name in the East India stockholders’ list. She had a mansion in Surrey, and a house in Portland Place. The name of the rich West India heir... ...m twelve when this brief meet- ing and colloquy took place between the two captains. A coach, into which Captain Osborne’s servant put his master’s de... ...uldn’t mind changing with you,” he added, with a bit- ter smile. “How many captains in the regiment have two thou- sand pounds to the fore, think you?... ..., 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 ... ...ip, who promised to show him the Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds.” At last, he said, “There was an old gentleman, with thick e...

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...t a question when Willoughby continued: “They’ve an awful time of it—those captains! Three thousand souls on board!” “Yes, indeed,” said Clarissa. She... ...stories of the splendours and hardships of life at sea, the humours of sea-captains, the wonders of night and dawn, and the marvels of the place delig... ...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... ...rwoman in Lancaster Gate, and another with a garden and carriage-horses in Surrey. Susan’s engagement relieved her of the one great anxiety of her lif... ...velyn and Perrott as they strolled about, imag- ining that they were great captains sent to colonise the world. They had seen the broad blue mark acro...

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..., 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 ... ...es, and with whom Lady Peggy is immensely popular. But the Subalterns’ and Captains’ ladies (the Major is unmarried) cabal against her a good deal. Th... ...ip, who promised to show him the Tower of London and take him out with the Surrey hounds.” At last, he said, “There was an old gentleman, with thick e...

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...torm, was heard. For nothing spake the mariners in their toil, And all the captains of the war were dumb: T oo much oppressed with wonder, too much th... ...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 ... ...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... ...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... ...one of James Christopher Wilson (d. April 11, 1884) In Headley Churchyard, Surrey Thou our beloved and light of Earth hast crossed The sea of darkness...

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...pushed them into my hand. “Opera Comique,” he said, “Thursday; Friday, the Surrey; Saturday, the Frivolity. That’s all, I think.” “But—” I began. “Gla... ...rough the air like a flight of young swallows, swift and easy. I guess the captains tried not to think too clearly what the real thing would be like. ... ... 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... ...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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... 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... ...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... ... green like the heart of a yellow rose. The wharfs and store-houses of the Surrey Side were massed in disorderly loveliness. The scene was so exquisit... ...with trim, tiny gardens in front of them; they were inhab- ited by retired captains in the merchant service, and by mothers or widows of men who had g...

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...a ship where the captain had his wife with him. I’d heard fellows say that captains’ wives could work a lot of mischief on board ship if they happened... ...ar, in his favourite over-the-fields, back-way fashion he entered a pretty Surrey village where he met Miss Anthony. Pure accident, you see. They came... ...ce. I didn’t study his case, but I had a glimpse of him the other day at a cricket match, with some women, having a good time. That seems a fairly rea... ...s wife were already on board. That in itself was already somewhat unusual. Captains and their wives do not, as a rule, join a mo- ment sooner than is ...

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...hrough Kentish hopgardens, Sussex corn-fields, or by the pleasant hills of Surrey, after a gymnastic leap over the riband of salt water, haunted many ... ... But where were our armed men? where our great artillery? where our proved captains, to resist a sudden sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was ... ...guished able men to army and navy—lieutenants given to be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later life of the family, ... ...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... ...thing to hear was, that Lady Romfrey had paid Mrs. Devereux a visit at her Surrey house unexpectedly one Sunday in the London season, for the purpose,...

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................................................... 98 THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS ..................................................................... ...close of a winter day, Their anchors down, by London town, the Three Great Captains lay; And one was Admiral of the North from Solway Firth to Skye, A... ...skipper looked at the tiering guns and the bulwarks tall and cold, And the Captains Three full courteously peered down at the gutted hold, V erses 18... ...rush. — The Athenæum. Buy my English posies! Kent and Surrey may — Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channe... ... An’, last, a Colour-Sergeant, as such to be obeyed, ‘E schools ‘is men at cricket, ‘e tells ‘em on parade; They sees ‘em quick an’ ‘andy, uncommon se...

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...l.” “Yes, and knows Harry’s nature.” “He said he had been fortunate in his captains, and had led, on the whole, a happy life at sea; and he thought if... ...cond boy in the school would support them, if he durst. The summer and the cricket season brought the battle of Ballhatchet’s house to issue. The cric... ...opularity, it was his duty to put a stop to the practice. He was an ardent cricketer himself, and though the game did not, in anticipation, seem to hi... ...wilight was sobering every tint, when, as 253 Yo n g e Norman crossed the cricket-field, he heard, in the distance, a loud shout. He looked up, and i... ... recess was not spent at the Grange, but at Lady Leonora’s pretty house in Surrey. She had invited the party in so pressing a manner that Flora did no...

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...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... ...ure a hero save Like Paris handsome, and like Hector brave!’ “My officers (Captains Biggs and Mackanulty, Lieuten- ants Glogger, Pappendick, Stuffle, ... ...dalusia, and more fell by his lance than by that of any the most clamorous captains of the troops in arms against them. Thus the tide of battle turned... ...o live in England, at Portland Place, and 347 Burlesques Tuggeridgeville, Surrey, and enjoy himself. Soon after, my wife took her daughter in her han... ... her eyes out.” And so I do believe my dearest Jemmy would! A DAY WITH THE SURREY HOUNDS. OUR BALL HAD FAILED so completely that Jemmy, who was bent s... ...te tutor to his Grace the Duke of Buckminster. “Mount Parnassus, Richmond, Surrey.” To this establishment our Tug was sent. “Recollect, my dear,” said... ...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...

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...had the pleasure of knowing it ever since it has been a shop. It is on the Surrey side of the water—a little distance beyond the Marsh-gate. It was or... ... or it may, perhaps, form the chief nuisance of some shabby street, on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. The lady performers pay nothing for their c... ...ndon, as unlike both of these as they are to each other. Cross over to the Surrey side, and look at such shops of this description as are to be found ... ...nd bar- rels of oysters directed to Lords and Baronets, and Colo- nels and Captains, in every part of the habitable globe. Behind the natives were the... ...ess-gloves, boxing-gloves, carica- tures, albums, invitation-cards, foils, cricket-bats, card- board drawings, paste, gum, and fifty other miscella- n... ...ran after the ball, which went into a neighbouring field. They called this cricket. ‘Tottle, will you “go in?”’ inquired Mr. Gabriel Parsons, as he ap...