... amusements of the people, which had been of late too much discouraged. He would rather see the people enjoy the manly sport of cricket, than sit in sullen sottishness in a -heer-shop. The Bishop LONDON agreed with the Noble Duke resecting the expediency, the ...

... seven sons, and says, that with six, chosen, he would make match for any sum of money, to plough, fhnot, swim, or play at cricket. It appears from the address of Governor Light to the Demerara House of Assembly, on the third ultimo, that her Majesty's ...

... System.—On Saturday the occupiers, friends, and supporters of field-garden allotments, together with the members the Bingley Cricket Club, dined together in the Odd-Fell iw's Hall, Bingley. The day being exceedingly fine, numbers of persons came to Bingley ...

... relief. According to the League, Free Trade is the only and universal panacea. Young England, again, has its public walks, cricket-clubs, and allotment system. Another party, of which The. Critic is the organ, urge the importance of Universal Education ...

... interests; and we are all charmed at so much benevolence ; but we shall see next session whether Young England will go beyond cricket-playing and speech-making. With these verbal duties and liabilities, the art of statescraft has degenerated to one of wrangling ...

... knowing how his heart might be opened at put, just as the gentlefolks did so much for the wants of the poor when they played at cricket with 'em. Hodge Sowthistlk seconded the resolution. He didn't know much about dice; that is, he didn't know the rigs of 'em ...

... containing some doggerel lines, which they designate poetry, or enthusiastic eulogy on Jones's magnificent battin in the cricket match between the This-cum-bush eleven and the Marrowfat club, the inadvertant insertion of which perhaps exposes the unsuspecting ...

... odour of peat, or of the wood-fire, announce that the weary labourer has supped, and perhaps now sleeps, unconscious of the cricket that sings in the garden hedge, or the nocturnal thrush in the old elm that over-canopies his dwelling. How delightful is ...

... September, are tho saffron and clouded-yellow butterflies; the death's-head hawk-moth, and convolvulus hawk-moth; ladybirds, crickets, spiders, beetles, and glowworms. The snake casts its skin—literally creeping out at its own mouth. Immense shoals of herrings ...

... to-day for the purpose of giving them a holiday, and up to four o'clock in the afternoon they were in high spirits, playing at cricket and other manly games. About that hour several of the boys proceeded to bathe in the sea, and five of them got out of their ...

... The gnat gives the note A on the second space. The death-watch calls in B flat, and an answer in G. The three notes of the cricket are in B. The buzz of a beehive in F. The wings of the house-fly are F in the first space. The humble-bee is an octave lower ...

... the night-mares of the Chimes: Job Perrybingle was convinced of the faithfulness of little Dot by the dreams of the Cricket on the Hearth. In the Battle of Life, a transformation is effected in one of the principal characters, not, however, through ...