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Kendal was one of these, and there we 

 played in Mr. Hornby's park, and he mostly 

 captained the Burton team. A still longer 

 drive was to Kirkby Lonsdale, where Lord 

 Bective was our host at Underley Park. A 

 sad memory is connected in my mind with 

 this, for about my last trip there, one of our 

 non-playing- comrades was drowned, while 

 bathino- in the Lune. 



It was on these occasions I first had the 

 chance of handling a team. One or two of 

 our masters drove a bit, and we who were 

 used ''at home" (how the old schoolboy 

 phrases crop up ! ) to handling a pair, 

 generally got a chance of ''tooling them." 

 In fact, the driving was my inducement for 

 going on these occasions, for my cricket was 

 never up to "eleven" form. I generally 

 managed to go, however, as scorer, umpire, 



