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"Who will go on first with you, Burgess?""Who do you think, sir? Ellerby? It might be his wicket."Ellerby bowled medium inclining to slow. On a pitch that suited him hewas apt to turn from leg and get people out caught at the wicket orshort slip. 　　"Certainly, Ellerby. This end, I think. The other's yours, though I'mafraid you'll have a poor time bowling fast to-day. Even with plentyof sawdust I doubt if it will be possible to get a decent footholdtill after lunch.""I must win the toss," said Burgess. "It's a nuisance too, about ourbatting. Marsh will probably be dead out of form after being in theInfirmary so long. If he'd had a chance of getting a bit of practiceyesterday, it might have been all right.""That rain will have a lot to answer for if we lose. On a dry, hardwicket I'm certain we should beat them four times out of six. I wastalking to a man who played against them for the Nomads. He said thaton a true wicket there was not a great deal of sting in their bowling,but that they've got a slow leg-break man who might be dangerous on aday like this. A boy called de Freece. I don't know of him. He wasn'tin the team last year.""I know the chap. He played wing three for them at footer against usthis year on their ground. He was crocked when they came here. He's apretty useful chap all round, I believe. Plays racquets for them too.""Well, my friend said he had one very dangerous ball, of the Bosanquettype. Looks as if it were going away, and comes in instead.""I don't think a lot of that," said Burgess ruefully. "One consolationis, though, that that sort of ball is easier to watch on a slowwicket. I must tell the fellows to look out for it.""I should. And, above all, win the toss."* * * * *Burgess and Maclaine, the Ripton captain, were old acquaintances. Theyhad been at the same private school, and they had played against oneanother at football and cricket for two years now. 　　"We'll go in first, Mac," said Burgess, as they met on the pavilionsteps after they had changed. 　　"It's awfully good of you to suggest it," said Maclaine. "but I thinkwe'll toss. It's a hobby of mine. You call.""Heads.""Tails it is. I ought to have warned you that you hadn't a chance. 　　I've lost the toss five times running, so I was bound to win to-day.""You'll put us in, I suppose?""Yes--after us.""Oh, well, we sha'n't have long to wait for our knock, that's acomfort. Buck up and send some one in, and let's get at you."And Burgess went off to tell the ground-man to have plenty of sawdustready, as he would want the field paved with it. 　　* * * * *The policy of the Ripton team was obvious from the first over. Theymeant to force the game. Already the sun was beginning to peep throughthe haze. For about an hour run-getting ought to be a tolerably simpleprocess; but after that hour singles would be as valuable as threesand boundaries an almost unheard-of luxury. 　　So Ripton went in to hit. 　　The policy proved successful for a time, as it generally does.

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