Related article: But I should like to say a word about •* boundaries " — another modern invention. The only one at Lord's, I believe, was the Pavilion itself, where the ball from a slashing hit would some- times rattle round the railing, and bound up the steps, causing a stampede among the spectators, and finally plunge through the window into the Pavilion itself. All other hits were run out to the tune of " Well hit, run it out," and the ring of lookers-on would make way for the ball aud the fieldsman wherever and whenever required. Then there was a chance of the batsman being run out, or for the bowler profiting by his being exhausted ; but now all this is at end — the bowler gets no advantage ; and place the field as you may, a ** boundary " is called before two runs may possibly have been obtained. We needed no boundary on Titchborne Down, where the Hants XI. played, nor at Cranbury Park on Mr. Chamber- layne's beautiful ground — and cer- Chlorpromazine Price tainly not on Salisbury Plain, where, as at Cranbury Park, the Hants and Wilts XL's, under Sir F. Bathurst, had their annual contest, and could hit to their heart's content. And let me re- call with pleasure the generous hospitality of these keen and warm supporters of the game, when they would house in turn the whole opposing XI. on the night before the match, and especially the liberality of Mr. Chamberlayne, who would convey his XI in his carriage and four to and from the ground on Chlorpromazine Cost Salisbury Plain. But some effectual change is certainl3r required in the matter of boundaries, and whether the circle of spectators be enlarged for more space, where the ground will ad- mit, or any other reform as sug- gested by others be adopted, the alteration is essential. Perhaps 100 baily's magazine. [Februaby the boundary hit may be reduced the drawn game is at once intelli- to three instead of four by way of gible, and the dreary length of a a compromise. And now, one two, or even a three days' match word more on the subject of is the most natural thing in the ** drawn games." How universal world, and the great outcry that are the complaints about them ! prevails may perhaps produce and no wonder. When the time some beneficial changes, enforced by the Rules is so dis- I heartily hope it may be so — ^in regarded, of course it is simply fact, a reform of some of the and wantonly wasted. Rules is urgently needed, and "The two minutes for each may fairly be made by the M.C.C. striker to come in, and ten minutes if cricket is to be a sport and between each innings" are ignored, pleasure instead of a matter of and hours are counted instead, business. And when we see how late in the Alfred James Lowth. day a match begins, and how soon Winchester, it ends, together with the luxurious luncheon between of no fixed Note. — I see that the Hon. E. duration, besides the stone-wall V. Bligh, in the January Number habit of batsmen fighting for long of this Magazine, has fortunately scores, and "records," and pos- given a diagram which exactly sibly for " gate-money," instead explains what I was thinking of, of real cricket and victory ; when and tried to explain in words in we sum up such items together, October last in this Article. Missing. We miss them in the morning, when we're starting to the meet ; We miss them at the cross-roads, where our custom was to greet One or two who lived out yonder, and who used to meet us there. We miss them at the covert side, we miss them everywhere. And most of all we miss them in the rally of the run, When we raced to catch the leaders ; there was certain to be one. Or it Order Chlorpromazine Online might be half-a-dozen, soldiers riding in the front, Taking nrst chance at the timber, cracking binders for the hunt. Some are by the Modder river ; some are bivouacked on the plain By the sad Tugela's water ; some are tossing in their pain ; Some in Ladysmith beleaguered ; some held prisoners by the foe ; And they're none of them forgotten, and they think of us, we know. There are others we remember, and the eye with tears will melt, As we think that they are sleeping, evermore, beneath the veldt, Nevermore to lead the squadron, list to trumpet-call, or horn. Till the sounding of RSvalle on the resurrection mom. They are none of them forgotten ; every day throughout the land, By keen eyes, with eager heart-throb, are the morning papers scanned. Not by hunter owners only ; in the Castle and the Cot ; Lords of acres, sons of ploughmen, bear alike the common lot. All are fighting England's battle, man and officer alike ; Equal risk and equal honour, where the Mauser bullets strike. Oh ! the weary, weary heart-ache ; oh ! the sorrow and the pride ; Oh ! the hope that rose and flickered ; oh ! the hope that sank and died. Harry L. i9oa] lOX Transport and Supply in South Africa. The organisation of an army's supply and transport is one of the most serious problems to be solved by the general in com- mand. It has been well said that ''an army marches upon its belly," and, if it is not only to march but to strike, a modern army must be accompanied by a vast reserve of weighty and more or less delicate ammunition. If its sick and wounded are not, as in the Middle Ages, to be thrown aside as valueless encumbrances, it must also have long trains of ambulances and waggons con- veying medical requisites and hospital stores. This is not the place in which to enter upon a technical detail of Buy Cheap Chlorpromazine all the food that is now required by our army in South Africa, but, roughly speaking, in the beginning of January, 1900, the daily wants are rations for 150,000 men and 50,000 animals. This vast amount has to be collected from all parts of the world, for South Africa could not furnish a twentieth part of it ; it has to be disem- barked at the great seaports, separated and forwarded to differ- ent forces acting hundreds of miles apart, and then distributed and delivered to the many posts that are occupied, the many indi- viduals whose life has to be sus- tained. Well is it for England that she has complete command of the sea, for otherwise the initial part of the task would be almost impossible, and foodstuffs for men and animals would only enter our magazines precariously and slowly. It is a quite sufficient task for our administrative officers that they should have the mani- pulation of the stores after they are landed quickly and in pro- fusion. Up to the date of writing, it may be taken for granted that almost all the transport on the lines of communication has been done by the railways. No general has yet been able to move any considerable body of men ten miles from the railhead. If any one had done so, he could not have provided for their daily re- quirements in food and forage, and, when the story of the cam- paign comes to be written, it will