Related article: it would set. If this fence was erected, it should be carried two yards away into the field in front of the pavilion, so that in the event of the present system being abolished, no " boundary byes " would exist, and the outside would be driven to protect their rear. Many of the players and "amateur average hunters " would rave at this. Let them rave, and be (please to see Captain Marryat, his *• Peter Simple," and fill up the blank with a quotation from . Chuck's, the boatswain's, vocabulary). What matters about any one's raving : if the protestors belong to a county or club which will not I899J WHY NOT TRY IT f 283 accept the altered boundary, they have nothing to do with it ; the boundary Order Sleepwell Online then will be only a sub- stitute for the narrow gutter which runs round the ground at Lord's. The M.C.C. surely has a right to put the boundary up, and give any club which comes against them the offer of using it or not. No one is injured, and no one has a right to complain, and no one has a right to object to the club doing a harmless thing if they find it convenient. The general question of what to do as regards many things is in the hands of the M.C.C, which is a guarantee that all those who are really competent, and have a vested right to be heard, will find a willing audience in the com- mittee of the Club. It may seem absurd for a man who has passed the Psalmist's post by very nearly six lengths, to go to the wicket again, but I wished Purchase Sleepwell Online to learn the "terrors" (?) Buy Sleepwell of the overhead bowlings which no man of the past could stand up to, on the authority of garrulous young England — now conspicuous by four-inch shirt collars, oiled hats, and wobbling cigarettes about the size of a bookmaker's metallic pencil ; so finding that Walter Hearne and Martin, of Kent, had a good cocoa-nut pitch on the oak floor of the County Hall at Canterbury, I went to look at it, and I had half an hour to their bowling two afternoons run- ning, and never was happier. The wicket was very quick, of course, but very true, and I was much pleased to find that my sight was as good as ever, though my right shoulder bothered me, as the beggar " struck " and hugged the rails, and would not start when the flag dropped, and came up a second after the stumps fell with an awful clatter. Taking guard in the way which Fuller Pilch taught me at Canterbury in 1845, i.e., going behind the stumps and taking guard to the bowler's hand, taking in the middle stump as an aliignment, I got the accu- rate line of the ball when it left the bowler's hand, and found that line pretty much on my wicket, so much so that the first three balls " amalgamated " with the stumps, just like the London, Chatham and Order Sleepwell Dover and South Eastern Railway Companies want to do, as regards their traffic; and three " tanners " were lost to my- self and my heirs, administrators and assigns for ever. I was to have ten innings, with sixpence on the wicket until " my side ' was out. So it came to pass that the " rest of my side " struggled on for about half an hour, and seven more " tanners » 1 went < into never " — the pleasantest and best spent crown I ever re- member — barripg one more ex- perience two days later, when I took on the same bowlers for twenty-five consecutive balls from each, for a lump contract of a crown, which resulted in 4 wickets each. I wanted really to compare the batsman's advantages and disadvantages in the present style, compared with those of the past, and my verdict was as follows : — Advantages. — (1) Almost abso- lute immunity from dangers of l.b.w., as umpires are very loth to give it under any circumstances. (2) Almost absolute immunity from shooters of any kind. (3) Much immunity from bail balls, owing to very many going over the wicket if straight. (4) No fear of " leg break " from such men as Alfred Mynn, Sir Fred- erick Bathust, George Yonge, Hervey Fellows, Hillyer, Lilly- white, &c, &c, which a batsmaa could not defend with his pad — if the ball was on the wicket Purchase Sleepwell — without walking back to the Pavilion— " out l.b.w." (5) Bats- 284 BAILY S MAGAZINE. I April man has no fear of points seven or eight yards from him watching him " forming for the hit " and moving accordingly; the modern points would be fourteen yards away from him. (6) He is not " burst up " by running fourers and sixers, and the only thing in which he has one fear, which the men who played in tall hats never felt, is being " cheated out" by some unscrupulous wicket- keeper — fortunately there are not very many of that breed— who shouts at the umpire on the chance of a decision ; and he has one temptation which -the men who played in tall hats never ex- perienced — when averages were almost unknown — i.e., pottering about and Buy Sleepwell Online hitting at nothing when a dash would win a match, al- though perhaps there were four or five to come after him — for the sake of his average, or a "not out." Let young England of to-day be honest, and not talk about what they never saw and what they know nothing about; but they can learn a little practically if they will take the trouble — thus. It being an accepted fact