A certain harmless singer of the cricket or perhaps of the tree-toad variety used to chirp his innocent note a short distance from our cabin.

And still that infernal cricket, or whatever it was, chirped.

"Damn that cricket!"

We were so genuinely emptied, not so much by the cricket as by the two years of fermentation, that not one of us stirred toward breakfast, in fact not one of us moved from the listless attitude in which day found him, until after nine o'clock.

Is this cricket?

Just thatis it cricket; what?' 'It isn't meant to be.

There, whilst the cricket chirps its chimney song, Within some crumbling chink, with moss embrown'd, The lighted stick diverts the infant throng, And fans are waved, and ribbands twirl'd around.

"Cricket and marsh-frog and brown tree-toad, Sit in the sedgy grass by the road, Each at the door of his own abode; "Each with a fairy fiddle or flute Fashioned out of a briar root; The fairies join their notes, to boot.

Around, in sympathetic mirth, Its tricks the kitten tries, The cricket chirrups on the hearth, The crackling faggot flies.

Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.

The bomb was round shaped and rather larger than a cricket ball.

Cricket, 303.

By the time they had finished their tea, they recovered their spirits, and were in the midst of an exciting game of cricket in a field adjoining the house with the old coachman and the stable-boy, when a summons came to them from the house to come in at once to their aunt.

I say, do you think we could teach Rob cricket?" Rob was a topic which always interested Roy.

You just see!" Roy was too excited over his mice to eat much breakfast, and when Rob came up to him immediately afterward with a new cricket ball, bought out of his small wages, he declared he was the "luckiest fellow in the world.

He always says he is straight and upright though his chest is weak, and now when he knows it's no use trying to be strong any more, for he'll never be able towhen he knows he won't be able to play cricket, or football, or even climb the wall or run racesoh, it's awfulit will break his heart, and I wish I was dead!"

"Yes, I'm so tired, put'I leave all my old clothes to the village boys, and my cricket bat and stumps to Ben'but wait a minute, Dudleythere are all the servants, and I've got such heaps of books and toysI think we'll leave it like that.

I can bowl at cricket and bat too, and I give a boy called 'Gnat' twopence a game to do my runs for me.

During the following fortnight I saw Harold a good many times at cricket-matches, hare-drives, and so forth, but he did not take any particular notice of me.

* A CRICKET BARGAIN.

Apart from the interest this paragraph will excite in the historians of the Army, the Turf, and the Cricket-field, it shows that HENRY VIII.

All our brave men and boys have gone to fight; they do not even need us for cricket-bats now," they sighed sadly.

" In "The Grand Rapids Cricket Club," one of the few poems that deal only with minor misfortunes, a certain player, Mr. Follet, tried a good remedy for a novel accident.

He was seen looming over Kennington Oval for some moments in the afternoon, but when he saw these dense thousands were engaged with the mystery of cricket and quite regardless of him he went his way with a groan.

Walt Disney's Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket.