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A BACHELOR "BOWL'D."--What with many a "maiden over" and the taking of
three hundred wickets in first-class matches, TOM RICHARDSON is _facile
princeps_ in the bowling averages of the past cricket season. Now he has
"made a match" on the Matrimonial Ground, and among the numerous
presents received upon the auspicious occasion that which, perhaps, is
of most interest to the "fastest trundler" takes the shape of a
magnificent piano, the gift of a "syndicate" of admiring friends. His
favourite tune on a winter evening will, of course, be "_Tom Bowling_";
and what more appropriate, after some stirring anecdote relating to the
"hat-trick," than a spirited "_Bolero_"? Then, too, music descriptive of
a "leg-bye" may surely be found among PAD-EREWSKI'S compositions. By the
way, the Christian name of THOMAS, as shared by LOATES, RICHARDSON, and
MORRIS, stands high in the annals of contemporary sport.
One strides the racing saddle and excels upon the flat,
Another proves his power, with the leather, o'er the bat,
A third is lion of the links--the Golfer's ecstacy;
Thus "TOMMY" trebly triumphs in serene supremacy
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"ATHELSTANE THE UNREADY."--_Note from Dr. Brewer's Reader's Handbook:
"'Unready' does not mean 'unprepared,' but 'injudicious.'"_ Almost
everybody is angry with him. Bull-baiting is nothing to the new game of
Riling RILEY, the injudicious one! So chorus, gentlemen of the School
Board, if you please, and take the air from the composer of
"_Ballyhooly_,"--
Is that Mr. RILEY?
Our ATHELSTAN RILEY?
Is that Mr. RILEY who rings the Church bell?
It _is_ Mr. RILEY!
He does nothing slily,
And yet doesn't do it remarkably well.
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COVENT WINTER GARDEN.--Opera Wagnerensia in full bloom. Consule
Druriolano, Magistro Lorinerio, Equite. Sir DRURIOLANUS must introduce a
dance of Love-lorn Loriners.