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A CRICKETER'S COMPLAINT.

. 4 Play cricket ? Of course ho did, And to tho simple villagers ho implied that ho was a terror at the game. "Will you play for us on Saturday?" they asked, nnd when he graciously acquiesced they considered the match us good as won, He was the first man in and lie asked for centre, and slapped dtyvn a blade of grass that was in the way with the air of a veteran. He played the first ball, or rather tho first ball played with him. "A nasty bowler that, sir," remarked the next man in, "Not at all; not at all. I could have played him nil day were it not for a nasty attack of lumbago-it has put me right off my play," he remarked, loftily. Tho second man also succumbed to the first ball seat dawn to him. "What on earth were you doing to let a simple ball like that beat you ?" queried the egotist. "You could easily have -swiped that for six. v "Well, you sec, I didn't feel vory well," said the yokel. "1 had "«• attack of the same complaint as you did, only down here we call it blue funk."

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North Otago Times, 8 January 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

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A CRICKETER'S COMPLAINT. North Otago Times, 8 January 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CRICKETER'S COMPLAINT. North Otago Times, 8 January 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

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