"Why don't you put on side?
I was watching you, and saw you give three awfully bad chances in your first over.
Never mind, stick to it, and we'll make a tidy player of you some day.
I hear they're going to get up a third eleven.

I dare say Ainger will stick you in it if we ask him." Tilbury laughed good-humouredly; for it was all on the cards that he might get a place in the first eleven before very long.
"I fancied Ainger had knocked you two over the boundary a little while ago.

I heard someone say, by the way, if you two could be thrown into one, and taught to hold your bat straight and not hit everything across the wicket, you could be spared to play substitute in Wickford Infant School eleven at their next treat.

I said I fancied not, but they're going to try you, for the sake of getting rid of you for half a day." "Get along.

You needn't bowl any of your mild lobs down to us.