But just here a policeman comes along and closes her wicket with a bang and cuts her off, so that her statements become indistinct, or come only as shrieks from a lost soul in an underground dungeon.
They have left our wicket open, seeing, or rather hearing, that we are quiet.
The policeman, coming along the passage, closes the wicket in her door, but softly this time, and not before we catch the plaintive words again.
Second wicket down, in came the fattest man I ever saw.
Remark his chivalrous hope for a soddenwicket to-morrow.
There was a sort of ticketwicket opening at the side, but it too was closed.
He had gone in first with Mansell, and watched wicket after wicket fall, while he had gone on playing the same brilliant game.
He loved cricket passionately--last season at his preparatory school he had headed the batting averages, and keptwicket with a certain measure of success.
As he left the wicket the whole House surged forward in front of the pavilion, and formed up in two lines, leaving a gangway.
He had gone in first wicket down, and stayed till the close.
She reached the wicket at Mistover Knap, but before opening it she turned and faced the heath once more.
She skirted the bank and went round to the wicketbefore the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene.
I will now," she said; and, acting on the impulse, went through the wicket to where Venn stood under the Maypole.
When he was gone Eustacia, leaving her telescope and hour-glass by the gate, brushed forward from the wickettowards the angle of the bank, under the fire.
Opening upon the public road, this yard was entered by a wooden gate, with a wicket in it, and was further defended by an iron gate upon the outside.
It stood well back in its own grounds, divided from the river by a wall with a wicket gate in it.
There was a rending thunder from the gate; the wicket reeled in and fell, and in a moment through the flimsy opening had sprung the figure of a man.
Elzevir knocked as one that had a right, and we were evidently expected, for a wicket in the heavy door was opened at once.
Then the wicket of the great gates swung-to behind us, and we went into the open again.
But when he at the wicket saw His sister with her curls, He turned his nose up so, and said: "I never play with girls!
At last one vigorous toss absolutely hit the wicket and sent the stumps and the flower-pot sprawling.
For then the Fairy Wicket stood everywhere ajar -- everywhere and to each and all.
The Fairies have had their joke: they have opened the wicket one of their own hand's-breadths, and shut it in their victim's face.
Opening then the wicket of the main gate, the keepers suffered Butler to depart, who hastened to carry his horror and fear beyond the walls of Edinburgh.
Gilligan appeared at the wicket things became more than merry.
The wicket was, indeed, to a certain extent favourable to him, but he was able to make the ball swing with his arm and break back in a fashion that was quite astounding.
He was in fine fettle, and from the first made light of the bowling, hitting all round the wicket with immense vigour.
The garden doors were thick, fortified by strong bolts, and had a little wicket lattice, shut and opened at pleasure, from which Jackeymo could inspect all visitors before he permitted them to enter.
At that wicketappeared a face, wine-stained and blotchy, but not so good-humoured-looking as that of the watchman at the southern gate.
If I felt a bit lonely I used to open the wicket in the gate and sit there watching the road, and p'r'aps pass a word or two with the policeman.
And in the middle of it all the wicket was pushed open and the 'ed of the lady wot all the trouble was about peeped in, and drew back agin.
I locked the wicket when he 'ad gorn away, and then I went to the edge of the dock and stood looking down at the spot where the purse 'ad been chucked in.
I slammed the wicket in 'is face and turned the key and then I took off my clothes and went down that ladder agin.
I ses, opening the wicket three or four inches and looking out at a man wot was standing there.
Arf a second, watchman," ses the policeman, as I started to shut the wicket agin.
I shut the wicketarter 'im, quick, and turned the key, and then I went on with my work.
A man came along round the corner full pelt, and, just as I got up, dashed through the wicket and ran on to the wharf.
I got to the wharf just as it was striking six, and at a quarter to seven the wicket was pushed open gentle and the ugly 'ead of Mr. Joe Peel was shoved inside.
Runs#: the running from onewicket to the other by the batsmen.
To the suggestions that Winter is the best bat left Tom only replies: "Arthur is the steadiest, and Johnson will make the runs if the wicket is only kept up.
He is never in his ground, except when his wicket is down.
So they leave the island and go to the tent, and after deep consultation Arthur is sent in, and goes off to the wicket with a last exhortation from Tom to play steady and keep his bat straight.
Return, then, princess, return even now through the wicket gate, for the sleepers have not yet awakened; and Finn shall never learn what has happened.
There is a wicket gate leading out from my apartments," said Grania, "and through that we shall pass forth.
I will now pass out through the wicket gate; and even if thou dost not follow, I will fly alone from Tara.
Besides, whether at home or not, whether in Paris or Cairo, the abbe always left something to give away, which the valet distributed through this wicket in his master's name.
So your name is Bucks," continued Dancing, as he walked through the wicket and threw his wet hat among the way-bills on the freight desk.
He pushed the foremost of the intruders back from the rail and followed up his commands by opening the wicket gate and driving those ahead of him toward the door of the waiting-room.
Baggs, paralyzed with fear, cowered behind the stove and the confidence man, catching sight of him, tried to crowd through the wicket gate.
Bucks needed his wits to watch the money that was pushed under his little wicket and to make change without mistake.
Thirty-three runs to make to win the match, and only one wicket to fall, and the Columbians discounted their victory in a gentlemanly fashion, while Jim Fleming looked very grave.
Give them no chances," he said to Howieson, as that stolid youth went in to join Speug, who had been at the wicket for some time, but had only scored ten.
Jarvis was an attractive bat, but was a good deal more dangerous on a fast wicket than a slow.
Had Graham been dismissed cheaply, we would undoubtedly have batted for the last two hours of the first day, the only occasion of the wicket being in favour of run-getting throughout the match.
He was never tired and never out of sorts, and when the wicket was badly broken I have known him time after time slacken his great pace for fear of injuring an opposing batsman.
You may stop the ball as long as your patience lasts, but you can’t get it away, and wicket after wicket falls, as the pick of my village eleven try in vain to turn fast sneaks into slow half-volleys.
Consider that old print of a game in progress on the Artillery Fields, where the players are equipped with the curved bats, wear knee-breeches, and the wicket is low and wide, with two stumps upright and one across.
Therefore the first essential is a thoroughly good wicket to practise on, and a good wicket is not a difficult thing to obtain nowadays, what with the improved condition of grounds all over the country.
BACK PLAY As soon as a batsman has made up his mind to play a ball back, the weight of his body should be transferred to the left leg, and the right foot should be moved back towards the wicket and the left leg drawn up to it.
He went to the wicket and made ninety without a chance that was accepted.
On the Newlands ground, Cape Town, and at Port Elizabeth, the matting is stretched over grass, and this makes a wicket which enables the bowler to get considerable work on, though the ball does not come off the pitch very quickly.
She went away, and climbed the path above, to assure herself that she would be able to find the wicket next day.
Now, do you be waiting at the little wicket in the wall, that you'll find up there in the lane, not later than one o'clock.
They opened the wicket and went up the road abreast of each other, but at some distance apart, scarcely a word passing between them.
