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Sarcasm From Short-leg In one of his short cricket articles in the “Observer” recently, Mr R. C. Roberttoft-Glasaow described the per-fect-looking bet he once had at school, a bat which, nevertheless, “didn’t work at all” but remained “a beautiful and deadly ornament,” la spite of disillusion. in later years he «&U occasionally bought a bat “I even lifted it in response to the vendor’s request that I should feel “how well It comes < up’: then 1 wrote toy name on the back. I was using one such purchase,” he went on. “in a match of 6ome,importance at Lord's, when Tom Lowry, at short-leg, inquired: “Pell me. do you buy your bats at Hamley’a, or leave them in water overnight?' Thenceforward# I settled to borrowing.”