CHAPTER II
School Cricket
A leading statesman who is also a golfer, but not a cricketer in the sense of an actual player, has recently made a speech in Scotland in which he gives sundry reasons for placing golf above cricket as a game. There is a story of an acute, hard-headed Scotch engineer being cross-examined by a barrister on some point connected with the witness's own profession. The barrister asked some absurd question, which could not be answered on account of its absurdity, and all the witness would say in answer was to the effect that it was impossible to say. The poor fool of a barrister, however, continued to press his question, till finally the witness said, "Man, you might as well ask me how far
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