"Dear Charles," I wrote him in the end,

"I fear no contradiction

When I declare that you have penned

A healthy work of fiction.

I am, I candidly admit,

A sounder man through reading it."


"Captain Turner only got a single when J. W. Hearne bowled him, and lunch was taken.

Essex.

F. L. Fane c. Hendren b. Kidd57
Russell run out51
Major Turner b. J. W. Hearne 1"