. Our village. Rule of Three;, gave him, whencompared with the general poverty, a most unnaturalpreponderance in the cricket state. He had the waysand means in his hands (for alas I the hard winterhad made sad havoc among the bats, and the best ballwas a bad one)—he had the ways and means, couldwithhold the supplies, and his party was beginning towax strong, when Joe received a present of two batsand a ball for the \-oungsters in general and himself inparticular—and Jems adherents left him on the spot—they ratted, to a man, that very evening. Notwith-standing this desertion, their forsaken lea
. Our village. Rule of Three;, gave him, whencompared with the general poverty, a most unnaturalpreponderance in the cricket state. He had the waysand means in his hands (for alas I the hard winterhad made sad havoc among the bats, and the best ballwas a bad one)—he had the ways and means, couldwithhold the supplies, and his party was beginning towax strong, when Joe received a present of two batsand a ball for the \-oungsters in general and himself inparticular—and Jems adherents left him on the spot—they ratted, to a man, that very evening. Notwith-standing this desertion, their forsaken leader has innothing relaxed from his pretensions, or his stills quarrels and brawls as if he had a faction toback him, and thinks nothing of contending with both THE HARD SUMMER J7I sides, the ins and the outs, secure of out-talking thewhole field. He has been squabbling these ten minutes,and is just marching off now with his own bat (he hasnever deigned to use one of Joes) in his hand, ^\hat. Scpcabbliiig. J^V an ill-conditioned hobg(;blin it is 1 .d yet there issomething bold and sturdy about him too. I shouldmiss Jem Eusden. Ah, there is another deserter fr(;m the parlx- ! myfriend the little hussar- -I do not know his name, andcall him after his cap and jacket. He is a veryrc-markable person, about the age of eight \cars, the «7^ OUR XILLACE \-ouiigcst piece of gravity and dignity 1 ever en-countered ; short, and square, and upright, and slow,with a iinc bronzed flat visage, resembling those con-vertible signs the Broad-Face and the Saracens-Head,which, happening to be next-door neighbours in thetown of B., I never knew apart, resembling, indeed, anyfiice that is open-eyed and immovable, the very sign ofa boy ! He stalks about with his hands in his breechespockets, like a piece of machinery; sits leisurelydown when he ought to field, and never gets fartherin batting than to stop the ball. His is the onlyvoice never heard in the inclcc: I doubt, indeed, if
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