Now, you see, unless I am mistaken, they will give quite as good an account of themselves at the wickets as they did on the field." And off strolled the honest Mr Parrett, bat in hand, to umpire, leaving his hearers not a little impressed with the force of his views on the first principles of cricket.
The master's prophecy was correct.

The Welchers, notwithstanding the fact that they had only twenty-five runs to get to equal their rivals' first innings, played a steady and careful innings, in which they just trebled the Parretts' score.

The bowling against them was not strong certainly, but they took no liberties with it.

Indeed, both the captain and Mr Parrett had so ruthlessly denounced and snubbed anything like "fancy hitting," that their batting was inclined to err on the side of the over-cautious, and more runs might doubtless have been made by a little freer swing of the bats.

However, the authorities were well satisfied.