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Mike

Chapter 4 AT THE NETS

Word Count: 1667    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

, though not many, about the Easter term: but it is in the summer that one really appreciates public school life. The freedom of it, after the

ng lights at their private schools feel it acutely for the first week. At one time it was the custom, if we may believe writers of a generation or so back, for boys to take quite an embarrassing interest in

Wrykynians, and Mike got a certain amount of reflected glory from them. The brother of first-class cricketers has a dignity of his own. Then Bob was a help. He was on the verge of the cricket team and had been the school full-b

three teams and a dozen or so of those most likely to fill the vacant places. Wyatt was there, of course. He had got his first

ff to?" asked Wyatt. "C

on. Junior cricket had not begun, and it was a l

ouse and shove on some things, and I'll try an

hour later he was sitting at the back of t

owler and concentrated his energies on that department of the game. He sometimes took ten minutes

the other two bowlers. Two nets away Firby-Smith, who had changed his pince-nez for a pair of huge spectacles, wa

ay of gliding Burgess's fastest to leg which Mike admired greatly. He was succeed

to be. He scratched forward at nearly everything, and when Burgess, who had been resting, took up the ball again, he had each stump uprooted i

, as Mike returned the ball

the afternoon, Wyat

"see that kid sitt

d eye," said B

f idea that he's a bit of a bat. I told him I'd ask you if he could have

the field equalled his

hink that I'm going to sweat to bowl

sit and watch. I rather fancy

gloves, borrowed his bat, a

re you?" asked Wy

irely modest person seldom makes a good batsman. Batting is one of those things which demand fi

d not look as difficult as Saunders. The first half-dozen balls he played carefully. He was on trial, and he meant to take no risks. Then the professional ov

e smile of an impresario on the f

" admitte

ill more complimentary. He go

me he was more than a trifle nervous. The bowling he had

a yorker, and banged his bat down in the block just as the ball arrived. An unpleasant sensation as of having been struck by a thunderbolt was

yed," sai

sful general receiving

rred. He could not do much with the bowling beyond stopping it and feeling repetitions of the thunderbolt experience, but he kept up his end; an

g to the square manner in which the c

u at before you came

re," said Mike. "King-Hall's

h cricke

ters, a chap called Westbrook, w

ss no

way, which is so

further remarks, but gathering from the captain's silence that the audience was at

no idea you were such hot s

awfully decent of you getting Burgess to l

dredth game with the cripples and the kids. Now you've shown them what you can do you

hat would b

est form of praise. He says it when he wants to let himself go and simply butter up a thing. If you took him to see N. A. Knox bowl,

so," s

een the Under Sixteen and a scratch side. Mike's name was among the Under Six

o himself, as he saw his name on t

a letter to his father,

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1 Chapter 1 MIKE2 Chapter 2 THE JOURNEY DOWN3 Chapter 3 MIKE FINDS A FRIENDLY NATIVE4 Chapter 4 AT THE NETS5 Chapter 5 REVELRY BY NIGHT6 Chapter 6 IN WHICH A TIGHT CORNER IS EVADED7 Chapter 7 IN WHICH MIKE IS DISCUSSED8 Chapter 8 A ROW WITH THE TOWN9 Chapter 9 BEFORE THE STORM10 Chapter 10 THE GREAT PICNIC11 Chapter 11 THE CONCLUSION OF THE PICNIC12 Chapter 12 MIKE GETS HIS CHANCE13 Chapter 13 THE M.C.C. MATCH14 Chapter 14 A SLIGHT IMBROGLIO15 Chapter 15 MIKE CREATES A VACANCY16 Chapter 16 AN EXPERT EXAMINATION17 Chapter 17 ANOTHER VACANCY18 Chapter 18 BOB HAS NEWS TO IMPART19 Chapter 19 MIKE GOES TO SLEEP AGAIN20 Chapter 20 THE TEAM IS FILLED UP21 Chapter 21 MARJORY THE FRANK22 Chapter 22 WYATT IS REMINDED OF AN ENGAGEMENT23 Chapter 23 A SURPRISE FOR MR. APPLEBY24 Chapter 24 CAUGHT25 Chapter 25 MARCHING ORDERS26 Chapter 26 THE AFTERMATH27 Chapter 27 THE RIPTON MATCH28 Chapter 28 MIKE WINS HOME29 Chapter 29 WYATT AGAIN30 Chapter 30 MR. JACKSON MAKES UP HIS MIND31 Chapter 31 SEDLEIGH32 Chapter 32 PSMITH33 Chapter 33 STAKING OUT A CLAIM34 Chapter 34 GUERRILLA WARFARE35 Chapter 35 UNPLEASANTNESS IN THE SMALL HOURS36 Chapter 36 ADAIR37 Chapter 37 MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION38 Chapter 38 THE FIRE BRIGADE MEETING39 Chapter 39 ACHILLES LEAVES HIS TENT40 Chapter 40 THE MATCH WITH DOWNING'S41 Chapter 41 THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF JELLICOE42 Chapter 42 JELLICOE GOES ON THE SICK-LIST43 Chapter 43 MIKE RECEIVES A COMMISSION44 Chapter 44 AND FULFILS IT45 Chapter 45 PURSUIT46 Chapter 46 THE DECORATION OF SAMMY47 Chapter 47 MR. DOWNING ON THE SCENT48 Chapter 48 THE SLEUTH-HOUND49 Chapter 49 A CHECK50 Chapter 50 THE DESTROYER OF EVIDENCE51 Chapter 51 MAINLY ABOUT BOOTS52 Chapter 52 ON THE TRAIL AGAIN53 Chapter 53 THE KETTLE METHOD54 Chapter 54 ADAIR HAS A WORD WITH MIKE55 Chapter 55 CLEARING THE AIR56 Chapter 56 IN WHICH PEACE IS DECLARED57 Chapter 57 MR. DOWNING MOVES58 Chapter 58 THE ARTIST CLAIMS HIS WORK59 Chapter 59 No.59