THE WEEK.
I don't feel in a bit of a writing bumor to-day for, to tell the truth, I am laboring under a severe . attack of the prevailing epidemic which may be described as the cricket mania, lam not singular in this subject. Everyone has got it. Publicans and brewers, butchers in the town, butchers in the. country, players at cricket and cricket players, (mark the difference) all appear to be suffering from the same disease, some in a greater, some in* a lesser degree. ' The butchers have turned their cleavers into bats, and I would like to convert my pen into a cricket ball and shy it at the head of the first man who asked me to sit down and write the column which has to appear in the Mail of Saturday with the letter Fat the foot of it. But in this respect the butchers have the advantage of me., They can do just as they like. I cannot. lam not even admitted to "bail," and if I attempt to give the field — for as such I regard the public— the " slip," I am sure to be " bowled out" and should be hauled over the coals unmercifully if my initial letter were to appear in print to-day with a " duck's egg " opposite it. And so I must do my best to score.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 77, 18 March 1876, Page 2
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225THE WEEK. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 77, 18 March 1876, Page 2
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