Pip; A Romance of Youth Ian Hay Books
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt ... CHAPTER VII A CRICKET WEEK I By the tjhie that Pip had reached his twentyfifth year his name was scarcely less familiar to the man in the street than that of the leading picture-postcard divinity, and considerably more so than that, say, of the President of the Royal Academy. The English are a strange race, and worship strange gods. Pip's admission to the national Pantheon had been secured by the fact of his having been mainly responsible for the sensational dismissal of the Australians, for an infinitesimal score, in the second innings of the third Test Match. The morning papers referred to him as "that phenomenal trundler, the young Middlesex amateur"; the sporting press hailed him as "the left-handed devastation-merchant"; and the evening "specials" called him "Pip," pure and simple. To do him justice, Pip cared for none of these things. He was much more concerned with the future than the present. He had scraped a pass degree at Cambridge, and was now nominally studying medicine. But he knew in his heart that he had not the brains to succeed in his task, and he persevered only to please his father, who, though he admitted that his son could never hope to put up a specialist's plate in Harley Street, considered him (just as a race-horse might consider that anything on four legs can haul a cab) quite capable of doing well in a country practice. One morning in July Pip received an invitation to play in the Rustleford Cricket Week, an honour calculated to inflate the chest of any rising amateur with legitimate pride. John Chell, the Squire of Rustleford Manor, was of a type now too rare. An old Grandwich captain, an old Oxford captain, and an old All England Eleven player, descended from a long line of top-hatted cricketers, he devoted...
Pip; A Romance of Youth Ian Hay Books
This is a readable tale of an English boy through from his early school days to playing cricket for his country and being successful in business, golf and love.It was written way back just after the first World War, a very different world to now. It is wholesome and romantic and leaves one with a warm feeling. My only adverse comment is that the separate phases of his development are treated independently at the expense of continuity.Product details
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Pip; A Romance of Youth Ian Hay Books Reviews
This is a readable tale of an English boy through from his early school days to playing cricket for his country and being successful in business, golf and love.It was written way back just after the first World War, a very different world to now. It is wholesome and romantic and leaves one with a warm feeling. My only adverse comment is that the separate phases of his development are treated independently at the expense of continuity.
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