toilette. The 
fluttering of gay flags and pennons from these various tents 
gave an airy and breezy look to the wordnetanger, and immediately 
we formed ourselves into sets, and the games began. It 
had been arranged that the preliminary playing should take 
place immediately, and the match game be reserved till 
after lunch. The various  costumes of the players, 
lit up by the bright sunshine, and contrasted with the 
emerald green of the lawn, formed a brilliant and animated 
picture, watched with interest by groups of non-combatants 
from rustic seats under the trees. Of course everybody 
was a little nervous in the trial games, and there was the 
usual amount of ill luck, and of " ohs and ahs '' of success 
or failure. I made myself a " booby '' twice, in that unac- 
countable way that seems like fatality. Then suddenly, 
favored of the fates, made two wickets at once, seized an 
antagonist's ball, and went with it at one heat through the 
side wicket, the middle and other side wicket up to the 
stake and down again, through the middle wicket to the 
stake again, and then struck back a glorious rover to join 
my partner. It was one of those prodigiously lucky runs, 
when one's ball goes exactly where it is intended