The Cricket in the WallThe Minister's IllustrationOld Memories CHAPTER XXIV.

Organ of rut, not reason, is the lord Who from the body politic doth drain Lust for himself, instead of toil and pain, Leaving us lean as crickets on dry sward.

On the other hand, much good results from the presence in county cricket of a leavening of gentle; for they prevent the further development of professionalism.

In one of his more energetic moods the Colonel made a four-footed cricket for Kaviak, who preferred it to the high stool, and always sat on it except at meals.

"I am very glad to see you looking so well, Redbud," she said, indicating a cricket at her feet, upon which Miss Redbud accordingly seated herself.

Again that journey from the cricket to the judgment-seat.

A boy ought to be playing cricket with other boys, not wandering at large about the country, probably smoking and going into low public houses.

Peter sat on a cricket beside his mother's chair and clasped his "Reading without Tears" earnestly and rigidly, believing it to be the key to the universe.

With eyes fixed upon the wooden face to find out how far he might venture, shakily he dragged the cricket from where Mac placed it, closer, closer, and as no terrible change in the unmoved face warned him to desist, he pulled it into its usual evening position between Mac's right foot and the fireplace.

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.

Chiefe of the Crickets of much fame In fairy a most ancient name.

There was a cricket behind the hedge, who accompanied our chat with his chaunt of hope, and all the valley, whispering in the dark, took pleasure in hearing us talk so softly.

"Click, click," his needle hastes, and shrill Cries back the cricket beneath the sill.

He was sitting on his cricket by the fire waiting for dinner.

This one blacked his shoes, that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons.

Then he put the cricket into a little iron box together with a rose, and gave the box to a man-at-arms, saying: "Ride to Lapo Cercamorte and deliver this into his hands.

In the morning Mamma Cricket had a hard time getting Johnny Cricket out of bed.

24 THE ADAIR METHOD It was during the interval that day that Stone and Robinson, discussing the subject of cricket over a bun and ginger beer at the school shop, came to a momentous decision, to wit, that they were fed up with the Adair administration and meant to strike.

I hear but the comfortable roar and snap of hickory logs, at long intervals a deeper breath from the dog stretched on his side at my feet, and the crickets under the hearth-stones.

ALL THE YEAR ROUND; OR, KEEPING UP THE BALL. When September soaks the fields, And the leaves begin to fall, Cricket unto Football yields, That is all!