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50 high, either to the right hand or to the left, and most of them very quick. From this it is easy to see that a field, to really excel here, must have peculiar gifts coupled with the faculty of stooping with quickness; so youth, in this as in other departments, must have its day. Tunnicliffe, of Yorkshire, is a splendid short-slip; but the best I have ever seen was the renowned Lohmann, who has brought off more fine catches here than anybody else in the history of cricket.

Lastly, in these days of wickets so smooth and good that bowlers' hearts are getting broken, let my former axiom be remembered—that good fielding makes weak bowling strong, that the smooth ground which kills the bowlers makes fielding easier, and if you do not want to spend nearly all of your cricketing time in fielding out, practise catching in season and out of season, for if an eleven only hold catches, it would astonish you to see how few matches they lose.