WILLOW THE KING

The Story of a Cricket
Match

BY
J. C. SNAITH
AUTHOR OF “FIERCEHEART, THE SOLDIER,” “MISTRESS DOROTHY MARVIN,”
ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY LUCIEN DAVIS, R.I.

LONDON
WARD, LOCK AND CO. LIMITED
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE

TO MY COLLEAGUES OF THE
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
AMATEUR CRICKET CLUB

CHAPTER I
PAGE
The Night Before	[ 9]
CHAPTER II
Coming Events	[ 19]
CHAPTER III
Little Clumpton v. Hickory	[ 34]
CHAPTER IV
An Impossible Incident	[ 47]
CHAPTER V
The Cussedness of Cricket	[ 64]
CHAPTER VI
Of a Young Person in Brown Holland	[ 81]
CHAPTER VII
Conversational	[ 97]
CHAPTER VIII
A Cricket Lunch	[ 106]
CHAPTER IX
Record Breaking	[ 128]
CHAPTER X
The End of the Day	[ 142]
CHAPTER XI
Cupid puts his Pads on	[ 155]
CHAPTER XII
My First County Match	[ 171]
CHAPTER XIII
A Case of Heredity	[ 199]
CHAPTER XIV
In which I am more Sinned against than Sinning	[ 213]
CHAPTER XV
Facing the Music	[ 230]
CHAPTER XVI
A Telegram from Stoddart	[ 248]
CHAPTER XVII
A Few of its Consequences	[ 262]
CHAPTER XVIII
I receive Instruction in a Heart-breaking Science	[ 272]
CHAPTER XIX
A Case for M.C.C.	[ 285]
CHAPTER XX
A Case for Another Eminent Authority	[ 298]

CONTENTS