HE OBEYED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 22

HE OBEYED.

It was a cricket match and one of the batsmen had been partaking too freely of intoxicating liquors. Indeed,

so much so that he felt incapable of taking his innings. The captain, however, tried hard to persuade him to do so.

“But, captainsh,” objected the inebriated one, “I can see three batsh and three ballsh.”

“Never mind,” said the captain; “you f; go in and hit the middle ball.” Sojhe went in and was bowled out first ball.

“You didn’t hit the middle ball,” remonstrated the captain. “Yesh did,” replied the bowledout one, ‘‘but I hit it with the outside bat.”