WILLIAM LILLYWHITE.
| From a Painting by | W. Bromley. |
JOHN WISDEN.
Three years ago at the Oval, I remember, Sam Woods was watching a match, and a certain individual in an immaculate sweater, brilliantly decorated in front with letters a foot long, sauntered on to the field. It was evidently a part of the game with which he had no sympathy. Sam glared down on him, and in his terse phraseology commenced—
“Who’s that feller?”
Some one mentioned a name. “I know,” says Sam. “I know the silly bloomer.... He was fielding in the country—I was playing—up she went in the air—he was fast asleep—catch her, you fool!—and he caught her—plumb on the nut.”
And this genial cricketer was pleased for the rest of the day at the mere recollection.