well bowled, Johnson!" cries the captain, catching up the ball and sending it high above the rook trees, while the third Marylebone man walks away from the
wicket, and old Bailey gravely sets up the middle stump again and puts the bails on.
Now, I am seldom out on a really grassy
wicket for such a meagre score, and as David and I changed places without a word, there was a cheery look on his face that I found very galling.
Then the Keeper of the
Wicket passed through and she followed, after which the door swung shut and locked itself with a sharp click.
The
wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this structure.
Was it thrown straight up to the
wicket, Dumkins had reached it before the ball.
Suddenly a voice was heard at the
wicket. "Benedetto!" exclaimed an inspector.
It was a sight to see the professionals bowling like demons for the hard cash, for whenever a stump was hit a pound was tossed to the bowler and another balanced in its stead, while one man took #3 with a ball that spreadeagled the
wicket. Raffles's practice cost him either eight or nine sovereigns; but he had absolutely first-class bowling all the time; and he made fifty-seven runs next day.
Both he and I had our backs towards the path leading up the field to the
wicket. We had heard no step on that grass-grown track; the water running in the vale was the one lulling sound of the hour and scene; we might well then start when a gay voice, sweet as a silver bell, exclaimed -
"Present yourself at the
wicket of the Louvre, on the side of the Rue de l'Echelle, and ask for Germain."
'No matter where I'm going,' rejoined the hangman, looking in again at the iron
wicket, which he had nearly shut upon himself, and held ajar.
Jo was through the last
wicket and had missed the stroke, which failure ruffled her a good deal.
She stealthily and noiselessly crept through the
wicket, and, ascending the stair, stepped out on the roof.
He told them of the last test match he had seen and described the course of the game
wicket by
wicket.
Then they went through all the rooms, till they came to a door on which were three locks: but in the middle of the door was a
wicket, so that they could look into the next room.
A man with a bloated face opened the strong
wicket, to whom Defarge presented "The Emigrant Evremonde."
