3 1 o The Course, the Camp, the Chase 



a match, there are few irregularities in the ground to give 

 assistance to the bowler. 



Still, the removal of the restriction which formerly 

 forbade the hand to be raised above the shoulder when 

 delivering the ball, makes it even now almost as dangerous 

 to face very fast bowling as in the days when the 

 humorous picture appeared in Punch, of the victim to the 

 terrific pace of Jackson, who was one of the fastest bowlers 

 that the world has ever seen. 



Other pastimes have held sway for a time, and then 

 have lost their attraction when some newer rival has 

 appeared upon the scene. Croquet for many years held 

 absolute sway at garden parties until it remained but a 

 memory, when lawn tennis became the universal favourite. 

 This, however, in turn has been compelled to partially 

 retire, owing to the unexpected restoration of croquet to 

 popular favour, though the latter has reappeared in so 

 altered a form that its earlier worshippers have difficulty 

 in recognising it as the same game they so energetically 

 pursued in the bygone days of yore. 



Golf, the latest innovation, long maintained a pre- 

 carious foothold at " Westward Ho," in Devonshire, but 

 never succeeded in establishing itself elsewhere until it 

 suddenly swept with irresistible force from across the 

 Border, and now boasts legions of followers in England as 

 keen as even Scotchmen themselves. 



The pastime, however, that has really caused a social 

 revolution is cycling. When once the light, swift " safety " 

 made its appearance, shortly followed by the invention of 

 the pneumatic tyre, it " caught on " with marvellous 

 rapidity, and has undoubtedly come to stay. So long 

 as the wooden " bone-shaker " was the only pattern, 



