throats with ginger beer is said by eyewitnesses to have been
something quite out of the common run.

The score sheet of the match is also a little unusual. Clephane's
three hundred and one (not out) is described in the _Wrykinian_
as a "masterly exhibition of sound yet aggressive batting." How
Henfrey described it we have never heard.




AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR


PART 1

The whole thing may be said to have begun when Mr.

Oliver Ring of New York, changing cars, as he called it, at Wrykyn on
his way to London, had to wait an hour for his train. He put in that
hour by strolling about the town and seeing the sights, which were not
numerous. Wrykyn, except on Market Day, was wont to be wrapped in a
primaeval calm which very nearly brought tears to the strenuous eyes
of the man from Manhattan. He had always been told that England was
a slow country, and his visit, now in its third week, had confirmed
this opinion: but even in England he had not looked to find such a
lotus-eating place as Wrykyn. He looked at the shop windows. They
resembled the shop windows of every other country town in England.
There was no dash, no initiative about them. They did not leap to the
eye and arrest the pedestrian's progress. They ordered these things,