"You won't mind my putting you into my new Novel, O'Flaherty?"

"Me dear Fellow, ye're welcome to put anything about Me ye loike—provoidin' it isn't thrue!"


CURIOS FOR THE CRICKETERS' EXHIBITION.

Mr. Blocker's Bat, which he carried through a whole season without scoring once off it.

A Ball which was "muffed" eleven times in one innings.

"Pair of Spectacles" (unclaimed) found on a cricket-ground.

Fine Sitting of "Duck's-eggs" (exhibitor's name not mentioned), and sample of "Butter" used in preparing owner's fingers for "a great catch."

"The Catch of the Season." Taken by Instantaneous Photography. (Twenty-seven of these snap-shots—all different.)

Model (on enlarged scale) of the "Mountain-molehill" between wickets, after an hour's patting down by a fidgety batsman. (Photograph of this, life-size, may be had on a slide for microscopic study).