Big and strong and swift, with fists like a blacksmith's, Kurt bowled over this assailant and that one.

Such a type, for instance, may be picked out by a football coach for an important position in a line-up, simply on the tremendous impressiveness of the muscle make-up, only to see him bowled over and out in the first scrimmage.

The carriage left a cloud of dust behind as it bowled along over the dry country road.

Ashton was soon left behind, and carriage and buggy bowled along slowly over a country road lined on either side with trees and bushes and tidy farms.

Some of the hands, as well as the supercargo, have been bowled over by fire-water.

The road for some distance being rather steep, we preferred to walk and let the carriage follow, but when nearing the junction with the Pierrefitte road, we mounted again and bowled along at a smart pace over the well-known bridge to the hotel.

When he came in I was busy whittling my axe-helve, it being my pleasure at that moment to make long, thin, curly shavings so light that many of them were caught on the hearth and bowled by the draught straight to fiery destruction.

He shot at him in a black streak and Pipoonaskoos bowled over like a fat baby.

As we bowled down the road toward a group of brick houses on the left, a shell passed not more than fifty yards in front of us and through the side of one of these houses as easily as a circus rider pops through a tissue-paper hoop.

Harry told how he had bowled the old farmer over just as the man was about to shoot at Frank, and then he convulsed them with laughter by relating the capture of the gun and the chase he had led the hayseed.

"Bowled over on Spion Kop," said Bob, "and fairly riddled as he lay.

" He imagined he was being asked whether the batsman had been bowled, and it never occurred to him that you could be "stumped out" in this way.

I was quite certain that the man who bowled me out was a direct descendant of Julius Caesar.

It was generally agreed that such a ball had never been bowled before.

Thus, from the first ball bowled in this historic match there arose the whole of the remarkable events recorded above.

Therein is shown the complete performances with the bat of two renowned cricketers; for, alas I in once more trying to play up to the form of Dumkins, I was bowled "slick" the very next ball, "as hath been said or sung.

" On the other hand, if we sow the wild oats of cricketin other words, if we risk everything for the fleeting satisfaction of a blind "slog"we shall be bowled, stumped, or caught out for a moral certainty.

When the fox appeared the deerhound made after him, and, in his attempt to dodge, reynard was bowled over on to his back.

You could have bowled over my whole scheme in a minute by being honest and telling me to bring on your cousin, John Massey.

William Grey then set forth to muster his men, remembering with great complacency that Samuel Long, the very man who had bowled us out at a fatal return match some years ago at S, our neighbours south-by-east, had luckily, in a remove of a quarter of a mile last Lady Day, crossed the boundaries of his old parish and actually belonged to us.

The only drawback in my enjoyment was the failure of the pretty boy David Willis, who, injudiciously put in first, and playing for the first time in a match amongst men and strangers, was seized with such a fit of shamefaced shyness that he could scarcely hold his bat, and was bowled out without a stroke, from actual nervousness.

So, turning our head eastward, we bowled along merrily with the stream, dashing down our late antagonist like a flash of lightning, then across the lake, and through a fleet of bannered rafts, till we landed on the Chats Falls Island, where we found our ponies ready to whisk us along the mid-air railway.

"Twill be stopped at the bounds' ditch," thinks I; but I was never more out in my reckoning, for it bowled fair through the gap, and made directly up to me.

Nevertheless, we had made a push to get on; things in Kashmir are often less gloomy than their reports would make one believe, and so we bowled quite cheerfully down the road from Tangmarg, basking in the hot and sunny air, which seemed to us really delicious after the raw cheerlessness of the last few days at Gulmarg.

By noon all was ready, and amid the rattle and jingle of many harness bells and the salaams of the domestics, we bowled out of Baramula, and set forward down the valley of the Jhelum.