CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2009, 25 August 1892, Page 30

CRICKET.

NOTES BY SLIP.

The fact that Frank Sugg was missed off the first ball he received in the second match between Lancashire and Warwickshire had an appreciable effect on the result of the match, for he scored 105 before he was ultimately dispqsed of ; and with a characteristically free 72 from Briggs, a carefully compiled 57 from Smith, and 32 from Yates as the principal individual contributions, the County Palatine totalled 357 in their first innings. Warwickshire made 130 (Richards 34) and 122 (Lilley 32), Briggs capturing 11 wickets in all for 96 runs. Had the rain which came down heavily at the finish fallen a minute or two earlier the match would have been drawn.

Kent broke a spell of ill-luck with a very decisive victory over Sussex at Gravesend on June 28. The Sussex bowling gave such little trouble to the Kent batsmen that a total for the latters' innings of 327 runs was scored in three hours and 50 minutes. W. L. Knowles played a brilliant unfinished innings of 85, and Alex. Hearne was responsible for 75, and L. Wilson for 70. The batting of Sussex was very disappointing, the first innings realising 110 only (W. Newham not out 41) and the second 108 (G. Brann 41). Walter Hearne and Martin divided the bowliug honours for the hop county.

Before the inter - University match, a strongish side of the Marylebone Club played a drawn game with Oxford. The Dark Blues were in a minority of 74 on the first innings, but their play on the second day was so satisfactory that, when stumps were drawn at the finish, the M.C.C. wanted 62 to win with only one wicket to fall. The University batted first and scored 150 (L. C ? H. Palareit 35), to which Marylebone replied with 224, H. Philipson, the old Oxonian, making 71, A. E. Stoddart 52, and G. F. Vernon 36. A power-fully-hit 90 credited to F. A. Phillips, 63 scored by R. T. Jones, 60 by M. R. Jardine, and 52 by V. T, Hill were the largest figures in the University's second innings of 335 runs, and the M.C.C. then scored 200 for nine wickets (A. E. Stoddart 60, P. J. T. Henery 38, Rowlin not out 35).

The last trial match played by Cambridge University before going to their defeat from Oxford was also against a team of the Marylebone Club. A draw wa,3 the result, but Cambridge was fortunate in that there was not time to finish the match, as the club only wanted 17 runs to win with three wickets to fall. On a bowler's wicket the University were sent in first and they were got out for 149, C. M. Wells claiming 48 and E. C. Streatfeild 42. The M.C.C. made 229. Alec. Hearne was top scorer with 64, got by an excellent exhibition of defensive cricket, entirely free from mistake ; W. L. Murdoch scored 57 in admirable fashion, and W. G. Grace contributed 36. In their second innings the University rattled up 283, J. Douglas making 53, D. L. A. Jephson 51, L. H. Gay 46, and E. C. Streatfeild 31. The M.C.C, left with 204 to win, lost six of their best batsmen for 65, but thanks to the exertions of Davidson (57), Pougher (not out 56), and J. T, Hearne (not out 37) the eoore

was 187 for seven wickets when stumps were drawn.

Those best versed in the history of University cricket stimulate their memories in vain (says the Field) to recall a parallel worthy of this year's most wonderful of games when Oxford beat Cambridge by five wickets. It was a match full of the exciting incidents, the fluctuations, and the great uncertainties which have clothed cricket with such glorious fame The bad beginning of the Dark Blues, followed by the great batting feats of M. R. Jardine and V. T. Hill ; the splendid display of the Cambridge team after having to follow on, all served to make the match one to be long remembered. With 184 to get to win, Oxford were confronted with no light task, and the loss of their two first men for 17 made the Light Blues chances of considerable brightness. But the other 167 runs were secured for the loss of only three more men.

Though they had the advantage of going in first m their match with Surrey at the Oval the early batsmen of Gloucestershire made such a disappointing show that their opponents were able to obtain a commanding lead on the first day's cricket as to set the result beyond doubt. The Western County, indeed, only scored 143, and for 75 of this number Captain Luard (not out), who was making his first appearance at the Oval, was responsible Surrey were not got rid of until they had scored 326, Maurice Read making 86 by a fine display, Henderson 74 by defensive cricket, Lohmann 45, and Abel 40. In their second innings Gloucestershire scored 222, Captain Luard making 49, E. M. Grace 41, and Painter 37, leaving Surrey with 23 to win— a number that cost them two good wickets. Rain interfered so much with the play in the first match of the season between Surrey and Lancashire • that when stumps were finally drawn only eight batsmen had been dismissed. The toss was won for Lancashire, whose team went in first, and after the play had been greatly interrupted on two days the innings was closed on the third morning, the score being 246 for eight wickets, in the hope that Surrey might be got out twice during the afternoon. Only five overs additional were bowled, however, producing 8 runs for no wickets, when the play had to be abandoned owing to the weather. For Lancashire, Sugg played a notoufc innings of 107 — the first score of 100 made against Surrey since 1889— and Smith, with 38, was the next highest contributor.

A match between somewhat weak teams, representing the North and South, played at Birmingham, resulted on July 2 in a sixwickets victory for the former, whose first innings reached 163, Ward being the highest scorer with 37. The bowling of Mold (six for 30) and Briggs proved so destructive that the South were all got out for 70 and had to follow on. In their second innings they did much better, making 237, of which W. L. Murdoch claimed 71, O. G. Radcliffe 32, and J. J. Ferris 31. Left with 145 runs to get to win, the Northern team secured the number for the loss of four wickets, Gunn making 53, L. C. Docker (not out) 43, and Shrewsbury 30. The excellent batting performances in their second innings, followed by wonderfully successful bowling on the part of Hulme gave Derbyshire a very creditable victory over Leicestershire — all the more creditable because they had had to follow on. Leicestershire in the first innings scored 232, C. E. Do Trafford making 64, Tomlin 36, and Chapman 34, and Derbyshire replied with 117, of which Bagshaw was credited with 40. In the second bat the Peak County scored 423 for seven wickets (8. H. Evershed 119, Davidson 106, L. G. Wright 70, Hulme not out 51, Bagshaw 49), when the innings was closed, and thanks in great measure to the phenomenal success with the ball of Hulme, who captured five wickets for only three runs, they put Leicestershire out for 98.

Arthur Shrewsbury, jun., who is a nephew of the great batsman and a prominent member of the Notts Castle Club, made his first appearance in a county match on July 7, when he was included in the Notts team that met Sussex. Though he failed with the ball he earned ihe distinction of making 44 runs in the match without losing his wicket in either innings.

Cambridge have now won 29 and Oxford 26 of the infcer-Uaiversifcy matches. This year's match will be memorable for a variety of reasons. In all, 1100 runs were scored — itself a record. It was the first time, too, that three individual scores of over 100 have been made in the long series of matches, and the second innings total of 388 by Cambridge jusb ties the the highest made— also by Cambridge in 1872. M. R. Jardine, of Oxford, though his contribution of 140 failed to beat K. J. Key's 143 for the Dark Blues in 1886, still has the distinction of the best aggregate (179 runs) in the match. The paying admissions to Lord's were 30,338 for the three days.

The English batting averages were, on July 7, headed by S. W. Scott, the Middlesex amateur, whose brilliant performances gave him an average of 55*50 runs for 13 innings. Wainwrighfc, of Yorkshire, who has come to the front with almost unexampled rapidity, was next with 43 11, and he was followed by Shrewsbury 42-33, Alec Hearne (Kent) 41, Sugg 39-14, A. E. Stoddart 37 41, O. G. Radcliffe 37-12, and W. G. Grace 34-28. At the top of the bowling averages was Abel with an average of B*Bs runs per wicket, but he had not bowled nearly so much as Attewell 1063, Watson 1156, Peel 12-67, or S. M. J. Woods 1334.

Qf the tremendous score put up by Yorkshire against Leicestershire on July 8 at Bradford, the cable has already afforded some information. Yorkshire were short of several of their most noted players, but they got rid of Leicestershire for 120, of which number Pougher plaimed 42. Yorkshire lost a wicket without scoring a run, and the second batsman was out with 29 up, but no other wicket fell till the total was 128, and the next pair of batsmen increased the tally to 251. Eventually when stumps were drawn for the second day the score had in? creased to 509 for six wickets, Peel (not out) making 226, Wainwright 122, Hall 38, and Ulyett 30.

\a the match immediately preceding that in which they amassed such a gigantic score against Leicestershire, the Yorkshire team put up a colossal total against Staffordshire. Though' they were without Lord Hawke, E. Smith, Peel, and Wainwright, the Tykes kept their opponents fielding -while 516 runs were scored. B. W. Franks, by brilliant hitting, made 163, Wardall (not out) scored 99, Hunter 83, Ulyett 57, and Mounsey 54. The Staffordshire batsmen could only get 74 (Turner 30) and 157 (Turner 43, T. W. Richardson not out 34) Yorkshire thus won decisively by an innings and 281 runs.

The Surrey Eleven gave an excellent exposition of all-round cricket at Edinburgh in the beginning of July, when they engaged a team representing Scotland. The toss was won for Surrey, who went in first and remained for a day at the wickets, scoring 391. W. W Read gave a brilliant display in compiling 156, and J. Shuter (58) and Lohmann (44) also hit freely In the first innings of Scotland, Lohm !n \TI ?\ 13 >' and L °ckwood (four for 20) rattled the lot out for 44, and following on the home team made 100 only, bo that they lost by an innings and, 247 runs, * y

A week after their defeat at Edinburgh, Scotland commenced a return match with Surrey at Kennington Oval, and again the English county obtained a decisive victory. After disposing of Scotland for 114 (Lockwood getting four wickets for 17 runs), Surrey rattled up the big score of 484-. K. J. Key was the highest contributor with a faultless 143, Henderson obtained 133 by capital hitting, Abel made 88, Watts 36, and W. W. Read 33. In their second innings the Scotch Eleven scored 224 (H. J. Stevenson not out 48, R. H. Johnston 44, L. M. Balfour 35), and thus suffered defeat by an innings and 146 runs. Among minor inter-county matches, played in the end of June and beginning of July, Hampshire 272 (Barton 89, C. J. R. Richards 48) decisively beat Essex 62 and 123 (Burns 42), Derbyshire 229 (Bagshaw 68, Davidson 59) obtained an equally signal victory over Cheshire 53 and 61, Bedfordshire^ (Captain Orman 51, L. C. R. Thring 48) and 150 for six wickets drew with Oxfordshire 207 (H. Bassett 86), and Yorkshire 243 (Wainwright 54, Wardall 44) and 29 for three wickets easily defeated Durham 123 and 148 (Butler 77). A fortnight ago we were informed by cable that Notts had, by their defeat of Surrey, won the county championship. Now we learn, however, that Somersetshire having defeated Notts by 122 runs, the latter county and Surrey are placed on an equality again. It will probably be found, when the particulars come to hand, that the bowling of S. M. J. Woods and Tyler has had not a little to do with the result, and perhaps H. T. Hewett, the "Zummerzet" captain, V. T. Hill, who was one of the Oxford heroes of the inter-university match, and J. B. Challen may have given the averages of Attewell, Shaddock, and the other Notts bowlers a bit of a twist. The former match, it may be of interest to know, was won by Notts, with some luck, by six wickets.

Arthur Shrewsbury's big performance in scoring 212 runs for Notts against Middlesex on June 20 and 21, at Lord's, must rank amongst his best efforts. This is the tenth occasion on which he has exceeded 200 runs in first-class cricket. Last year his highest score was against Kent, when he made 178. In 1890 he hit 267 against Sussex ; in 1888, 206 against the sixth Australian team, at Sydney ; in 1887« 232 for England against Victoria ; in 1887, 267 against Middlesex ; in 1886, 236 for Smokers v. Non-smokers, at Melbourne ; again in 1886, 227 not out against Gloucestershire ; in 1885, 224 not out against Middlesex ; in 188*, 209 against Sussex ; and in 1882, 207 against Surrey.

That same match between Notts and Middlesex was practically won for the former, as I have already stated, by Sherwin, who gave up the position of wicketkeeper and captured two wickets at a small cost in the second innings of the metropolitan county. Regarding this, the Athletic News remarks :—": — " Sherwin being put on to bowl for Notts recalls the famous incident when Alfred Lyttelton resigned the gloves and beat the Australians with his lobs. Sherwin, who bowled Mr A. J. Webbe and the Hon. F. I J. Thesiser for nine runs, virtually won Notts ! the Middlesex match. You know Sherwin has great faith in his abilities as a bowler. He put himself on at the last Scarborough festival against the Gentlemen of England, but when six overs had yielded 23 he took himself offi He has frequently bowled successfully for Marylebone, and he has previously bowled for Notts. It was in June, 1888, against Kent, at Trent Bridge. Ho had caught four men of Kent ; but although Notts had tried nine bowlers, the attack was fairly mastered until this fairy-like stumper seized the leather and secured the two last wickets for seven runs. Shcrwiu, in fact, is an admirable Crichton, and he can do anything in the world, from turning a somersault to singing ' 0 deni golden slippers.' " [Now Fibst Published.] KINGS oiTcRICKET. REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES, WITH HINTS ON THE GAME. By Richard Daft, Member of the All England Eleven,"ex-Captain of Notts County, Captain of the AngloAmerican Team 1879, &c, &c. The Rights op Reproduction are Strictly Reserved. TOUR TO CANADA AND THE STATES. In 1879 I took out a team to Canada and the United States. This eleven, or rather twelve, was a remarkably strong one, being composed of the best professionals of Yorkshire and Notts. The following is a list of the names :—: — R. Daft, Captain W. Bates W. Oscroi>t Alfred Suaw J. Selby E. Lockwood W. Barnes T. Emjiett A. Shrewsbury G. Pinder G. Ulyett F. Morley. We set sail at the end of the English cricket season. I had never before crossed the Atlantic, and expected I should have a tottering time of it. It was all right until we got out of the Mersey, which we did just before we sat down to dinner. I already began to feel queer, and directly the soup was placed in front of me I had to get up and make a rush for the door, followed by several of our men who were in the same plight as myself. I remember turning round and seeing old Pinder, who was just behind, snatch a piece of bread oft" the table as he came after me, thinking perhaps there was no knowing when we should get anything to eat again. I got down to my berth, and there I stayed until we ran into the St. Lawrence. I was very bad all the time and could eat nothing at all for several days, and had to stick to gruel. What made it more tantalising was that some of -the team would come to see how I was getting on, and would always inform what a splendid dinner they had just had, and all the rest of it. But ill as I was I was not in such a bad way as Barnes, who I was afraid would at one time have succumbed to the effects of seasickness. We landed at Quebec and played our iirst match at Toronto. We saw her Royal Highness the Princess Louise on the first day, and his Excellency the Governor-general (the Marquis of Lome) on the second, to both of whom I had the honour of being presented. We had a most enjoyable trip. The people both in Canada and the States seemed to vie with each other as to who could make the most of us. We played 12 matches altogether, none of which we lost. We had a great treat in seeing the far-famed Falls of Niagara, at which place we spent the Sunday.

I was greatly surprised to overhear a conversation between Pinder and Lockwood on this occasion. We were taking our first look at the great fall, at which most of us were almost awestruck with admiration. The two Yorkshire men were standing a little apart from the rest of us, and Pinder asked Lockwood "what he thought on't ?■' Ephraim replied, "Nowt at all ! If this iv the Falls of Niagara, I'd booiier be at Sheffield ! "

These two worthier, alwaj-6 chummed together wherever vre went.

The oddest thing was that whenever they went out for a walk together instead of walking side by side, Ephraim would always be about six or eight yards in the rear of his companion, but they would always contrive to carry on a conversation with each other for all that.

We had a good laugh at Tom Emmett at Niagara. We were sitting underneath the falls, and as the day was warm Tom pulled off his boots and socks and laved his feet in the water. He had seen a- snake a short time before, about which he talked a great deal. Well, as he sat with his feet in the water, Ulyett, I think it was, got hold of Tom's socks, which he proceeded to fill with snails, worms, &c, and managed to replace them without Tom knowing anything of what he had done.

After a while Emmett dried his feet and began to get into his socks. On account of their being a bit wet he had at first some difficulty in doing this, but at last his feet shot down into the collection of reptiles which the sock con-

taincd. Tom, I feel sure, thought it was another snake, and yelled like anything, and it was some time before he was able to get his foot at liberty and see what it was that had bitten him, as he thought.

In the evening, it being Sunday, I resolved to go to church, Mr Browne, our secretary, agreeing to accompany me, and on our way there we encountered Lockwood and Emmett and persuaded them to join us. The church was a very small one, but I enjoyed the service very much. The clergyman and the clerk appeared to be consulting together after the sermon as to whether there should be a collection or not, and after a while the plate came round. As soon as Ephraim became aware of the plate he dropped fast asleep, and so remained till the collector had got well out of his neighbourhood.

The mosquitoes were a source of annoyance to some of us during our visit at Staten Island, and they seemed to take a greater fancy to Ephraim than to any one else. Once when we were all breakfasting at the table d'hote at one of the hotels where we stayed, Pinder came in late. We could at once perceive that the mosquitoes had been attending to his countenance, and some of our party began to chaff him about it. "AH right," answered George. "You've seen nothing yet. Just wait till Ephraim appears."

After a while Ephraim did appear, and a pitiable object ho looked, for the mosquitoes had evidently been at work on his face during the whole of the night. He dropped into a chair nearest the door, hoping evidently to escape observation, but having all been prepared by Pinder, his arrival was greeted by a roar of laughter. But it was no laughing matter for Ephraim, for the mosquitoes stuck to him -at every place we went to for weeks after. He could get little sleep at night, and used to have to take his repose in the tents and dressing rooms on the ground. The poor fellow was really ill, and his batting was affected accordingly, for few or no runs could he get ; but at last on a very

bumpy wicket he happened to get set, and played as fine an innings as one could wish, making over 80 runs, if I remember right. This seemed to give him a start, and he went on from this time making good scores, and came out with one of the best averages of the tour. The bowlers we met in America were superior, as a rule, to the batters.

The passage home was not nearly such a rough one as the one "out had been, and the bad sailors of our party consequently fared much better than we had done on the former occasion. At our farewell banquet at Liverpool, which was held on our landing, the team presented me with a beautiful gold pencil case as a souvenir of our most pleasant outing. I brought home many books, curiosities, &c, with which my newly made friends across the Atlantic loaded me on our departure ; and it now gives me the greatest pleasure to look over these and to call to mind the many kindnesses shown to me and my eleven by those who gave them to me.

The season of 1880 was my last as a regular member of the Notts County Eleven, having played regularly for it during a space of 22 years, and having held the office of captain for nearly half that time. At the time that I retired there was not a single man in the team who had been a member when I first became one of its members. Mr Davey had succeeded Mr Johnson as our hon. sec, and Captain Holden held the position after him. During my time no one did more for Notts cricket than this gentleman, and no man I now know is a better judge of the game or fonder of it than he is.

It cannot be supposed that after five and thirty years of cricket, I have not met several rather serious accidents, but all things considered, I think I have come off better than most of my fellow cricketers in this respect. In 1871, as 1 have mentioned elsewhere, I broke a tendon of my leg when starting to run, and this laid me up for a long time. I once met with a bad accident at Salisbury in catching a ball that was hit very high in the air. My finger nail being torn almost away from the finger.

On another occasion I sustained a rather severe injury by charging into another fielder

as we were both trying for the same catch, his head coming into such violent contact with my cheekbone that he fell to the ground. I had a good deal the worst of the collison and felt its effects for many days after.

The worst injury, however, that I sustained was not occasioned through cricket, but it very nearly caused my never being able to play again. This was from a blister I had on my hand caused by rowing,- which exercise I was foolish enough to indulge in after the blister had burst. My hand began to fester, and swelled about as big as a boxing glove, and my fingers closed up so tightly that nothing could pull them open. The doctor, after telling me he feared nothing could avail me but amputation, lanced ray hand, which I am pleased to say proved effectual without further operations. This happened nearly 30 years ago, and I now bear a huge scar on my hand which was left by the surgeon's lancet.

MY CRICKET OF LATE YEARS.

I was fully determined after quitting first-class cricket not to give up tho game altogether, for no one knew better than myself the great benefit which is to be derived from it as regards health. I consequently agreed to forget that I was 45 years of age, and played in as many club and local matches the following season as I should have done if I had been a quarter of a century younger. I have continued to do this to the present day, and intend to do as long as I can decently hold my own amongst my fellow players. I have every year made many large scores, often against county bowlers, and last season but one I finished with an average of 41 for 25 innings. I do not mention these facts in a boasting spirit, but do so hoping it will bo the means of persuading old County players of the future not to give the game up when they retire from the great matches of the day, fancying that they are "played out," which I assure them is often no more the case than it is with myself.

There are only two men with whom I play now who are anything like my own age, and they two are quite able to hold their own with some of the best of tho young ones. One is Mr Charles Parnham, of Cotgrave, Notts, a wellknown local player ; and the other is Mr William Wright, of Woollaton, the father of Mr C. W. Wright, the well-known Cambridge player. Mr Wright takes a team into Yorkshire to play

a week's crickot every season, and I always have been one of his eleven on these occasions. Scarbro' is a place we go to on these tours, and here against the North Riding of YorkBhire, I, four years ago, made the larg score of 222.

These North Riding matches have always been most enjoyable ones, and many runs have been made in them on both sides. The one played at Middlesbrough in 1887, begun on the Jubilee Day, I shall never forget. In this match the Yorkshiremen followed their innings after making 360 odd runs. I meet on these tours many of my old friends of former days, and who are as delighted to see me as I am to see them, for there are no people I am fonder of than Yorkshiremen.

Mr Wright, in his matches, is a regular martinet, and keeps us almost as hard at it as we were in our old England days. If we can get off with beginning at 11 o'clock and finishing at 7 in the evening, we consider ourselves lucky, for he is keen enough to keep us at it till bed-time if the other side were agreeable. 1 We took with us on these tours a few years ago, as umpire, an old gentleman who was known as a cricketer in Nottingham when I was a boy. 'In one of our matches he gave one of the opposite side out leg before, a decision with which the batsman was much disgusted and said so. " Don't talk to me, young man," said our umpire to him indignantly. " I played cricket before your father was born." On hearing this the astonished batsman returned to the pavilion in silence. This same old umpire played himself till he was well over 60 years of age, and was captain of the club of the village in which he resided ; and in all matches he always would put himself on to bowl lobs, and never by any chance would take himself off. None of his eleven ever liked to suggest that he should do so ; but in one match when he was getting very much knocked about and there were no wickets falling someone said to him at last, " Don't you think we ought to have a change, Mr ." " Yes, I do," i_he replied, and took off the bowler at the opposite end. Time went on, and the old fellow's lobs were getting terribly expensive , and again another change was suggested by several of his companions. " All right ! " said the old gentleman. "We will now try a thorough chaDge I'll yo on at the other end ! "

This old gentleman used to relate a story of a match played between his own and a neighbouring village 50 years ago, which commenced very early in the morning, and the wicket being a rough one the game was soon concluded. This

being the case it was mutually agreed to play the return uialrh, and this also being of short duration, and both teams having won a game each, they were able to play the "conqueror" before night came on, This tale is, however,

eclipsed by the following, for the truth of which I cannot vouch, but it has been pretty generally circulated in Nottingham. The tramway officials of the town, it is said, a few years ago, got up a match amongst themselves, and as they had to be on duty early in the morning they agreed to begin their cricket match at the unusually early hour of 4 a.m., and the side winning the toss put their opponents in to bat first on account of its scarcely being yet daylight.

There was one gentleman I met about two years ago in Yorkshire who rather amused me. I had not seen him since my very earliest cricketing days, and amongst other things he said quite seriously, "Richard, my boy, you look a good deal older than you did when I saw you last ! " I reminded him that as that was 30 years ago it was scarcely to be wondered at. I thought at the same time I might have returned the compliment, for the last time I had seen him he weighed about list, and would now easily have scaled 18, and I should not have known him from Adam if I had met him anywhere else. } Poor George Parr went with us, as I have before mentioned, to stand umpire in one of these tours in that dreadfully cold summer of 1888. The weather during this week was wretched, and gave the old man a severe shaking. Our first match was at Middlesbrough as in the previous year. The pneumonia epidemic was rather bad there at the time. Had George had the least idea of this before leaving home, nothing, I am persuaded, would have induced him to do so ; but here he was and had to make the best of it. He had all his life intensely disliked the sight of & funeral, and here there were several passing the ground during the three days which he could not avoid seeing. The severe weather gave him a cold, and of this he told us next morning, saying it had settled in his throat and chest. Several of our eleven on coming home agreed to give him a fright and arranged a programme accordingly. We were all in the railway carriage and several began talking of the pneumonia business. " Where does it first attack anyone ? " asked one. "Oh," said another, "they tell me it begins in the throat first, throat and chest." Poor George, who was looking out of the window, no sooner heard this than he jumped round as though he were shot, and exclaimed, " Then I'm a dead 'un any time ! " He was so frightened that we had a difficulty in persuading him that the disease had not attacked him.

(To be continued.)