As I entered my room a terrible sight met my eyes.

(To be continued.)


The Great Trott-ing Match.

[Albert Trott, in the latest representative cricket match between Mr. Stoddart's Eleven and All Australia, scored two "not out" innings of 38 and 72, and took eight wickets for 43 runs.]

Giffen's boys were this time, we may say without banter,

Eleven too many for stout "Stoddart's Lot";

We oft read of matches as "won in a canter,"

But this one was won, it would seem, by A. Trott.