Mr. BLOCKER's Bat, which he carried through a whole season without
scoring once off it.
A Ball which was "muffed" eleven times in one innings.
"Pair of Spectacles" (unclaimed) found on a cricket-ground.
Fine Sitting of "Duck's-eggs" (exhibitor's name not mentioned), and
sample of "Butter" used in preparing owner's fingers for "a great
catch."
"The Catch of the Season." Taken by Instantaneous Photography.
(Twenty-seven of these snap-shots--all different.)
Model (on enlarged scale) of the "Mountain-molehill" between wickets,
after an hour's patting down by a fidgety batsman. (Photograph of this,
life-size, may be had on a slide for microscopic study).
Instantaneous Photograph picked up at the Oval. (It is not known whether
this represents an epileptic octopus, or the crack fast-bowler,
SPINDLEWHIZ, "delivering" a ball.)
Fragments and Splinters. (Supposed to be the gathered remains of wicket,
after being "scattered" by one of BUSTER'S lightning-expresses.)
Diagrams. (Supposed at one time to be "kodak" of a lightning-flash, but
discovered to represent the course of a "misfielded" ball between
leaving bowler's hand and returning thereto.)
"The Ball which Bowled BOKO." (Descriptions of--Thirteen in number,
unique, varied, interesting, but unintelligible, selected from the
unfortunate, and resentful, victim on thirteen several occasions when he
was "just explaining how he was unlucky enough to be given out first
ball in the Big Match.")
Portrait of Umpire. (After reading the above thirteen authentic and
unimpeachable, but irreconcilable, explanations.)
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