The Day's Play
9781465682574
213 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
By Hobbs, cried Archie, as he began to put away the porridge, "I feel as fit as anything this morning. I'm absolutely safe for a century." "You shouldn't boast with your mouth full," Myra told her brother. "It wasn't quite full," pleaded Archie, "and I really am good for runs to-day." "You will make," I said, "exactly fourteen." "Hallo, good-morning. Didn't see you were there." "I have been here all the time. Fourteen." "It seems a lot," said Myra doubtfully. Archie laughed in scorn. "The incoming batsman," I began, "who seemed in no way daunted by the position of affairs——" "Five hundred for nine," put in Myra. "—reached double figures for the fourth time this season, with a lofty snick to the boundary. Then turning his attention to the slow bowler he despatched him between his pads and the wicket for a couple. This, however, was his last scoring stroke, as in the same over he played forward to a long hop and fell a victim to the vigilance of the wicket-keeper."
