“Can’t you even try to stump them?”

And I replied:

“I might, if my arms were ten feet long.”

Then he said:

“You’ve had dozens of chances. I always want a wicket-keeper for my bowling.”

Whereupon I answered:

“You want twenty—in a row. One’s no good.”

He said:

“You don’t like standing up to my fast ones, that’s the truth.”

And I responded: