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[To TEE EDITOR OP THY " SPECCATOR.1 Sin,—With reference to

the verses quoted by your correspon- dent, Mr. F. J. C. Hearnshaw, in the Spectator of July 27th, they appear in "Chronicles of Cricket "—facsimile reprints of Nyren's " Cricketer's Guide "—published by Swan Sonnen- schein and Co. in 1888. The author of these verses is there stated to be "the Revd. Mr. Cotton of Winchester."—I am,