_Q._ What is "fielding"?
_A._ The author of _Tom Jones_.
_Q._ How do you stop a ball?
_A._ By putting out the lights.
_Q._ When does a party change sides?
_A._ When he's in bed, and got the fidgets.
_Q._ What do you call "a long slip"?
_A._ A hundred songs for a halfpenny.
_Q._ How much is game?
_A._ It depends whether it's in season.
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FANCY our dear old lady's horror when she heard that last week, at
Lord's, a cricketer had bowled a maiden over. "Poor thing!" exclaimed
Mrs. R., "I hope she was picked up again quickly, and wasn't much hurt."
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