TWO ENGLISHMEN REPLY Dear Mr. Gandhi, Thank you for your letter to every Englishman in India, with its hard-hitting and its generous tone.

He felt both sore and sick at the pit of his stomach, in no mood for any further altercation with this hard-hitting athlete.

We have only to stand "mid-off" or "point" on a cold day at the beginning of May whilst a hard-hitting batsman, well set on a true wicket, is driving or cutting ball after ball against our hands and shins, to realise what a capital school for courage the game is!

He was a big brute of a man, a veritable gorilla, one of those hard-hitting, rough-housing chaps, and clever with his fists as well.