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Illustrator: Frank Feller and S. Thurdale
Doctor Jolliffe's Boys
Every scene is beautifully drawn, and I have wondered many times why the author did not write more, and indeed why this book is not more well known than it is. Until I found a copy in an old book shop I had never heard of either the author or of the book.
The characters of the various principal actors in the story are very well drawn, and one feels one knows them all quite well by the end of the book.
DOCTOR JOLLIFFE'S BOYS
BY LEWIS HOUGH
A TALE OF WESTON SCHOOL.
"Well cut, Saurin, well cut! Run it out! Four!" The ball was delivered again to the bowler, who meditated a shooter, but being a little tired, failed in his amiable intention, and gave the chance of a half-volley, which the batsman timed accurately, and caught on the right inch of the bat, with the whole swing of his arms and body thrown into the drive, so that the ball went clean into the scorer's tent, as if desirous of marking the runs for itself.
"Well hit indeed! Well hit!"
The Westonians roared with delight, and their voices were fresh, for they had had little opportunity of exercising them hitherto. Crawley, the captain of their eleven, the hero in whom they delighted, had been declared out, leg before wicket, when he had only contributed five to the score. Only two of the Westonians believed that the decision was just, Crawley himself, and the youth who had taken his place, and was now so triumphant. But he hated Crawley, and rejoiced in his discomfiture, even though it told against his own side, so his opinion went for nothing.
Well, no more did anybody's else except the umpire's, who after all is the only person capable of judging.
"Saurin has got his eye in; we may put together a respectable score yet."
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