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became necessary at the last moment to telegraph to the Potteries for a
large consignment of bed-room ware, which, in spite of protestations, had
been laid in only in half quantities. The world of school has marched
forward since the days when three or four basins sufficed for the toilet
of a dozen boys.
While the elementary needs of the colony were being attended to, its more
advanced wants were not neglected. There were those whom the anxiety of
providing for the school amusements, and in particular its cricket,
suffered not to sleep. We believe that the first piece of school
property which arrived on the scene was the big roller from the cricket-
field. Resolved to gather no moss in inglorious ease at home, it had
mounted a North-Western truck, and travelled down to Bow Street station,
where it was to disembark for action. It cost the Company's servants a
long struggle to land it, but once again on terra firma it worked with a
will and achieved wonders, reducing a piece of raw meadow land in a few
weeks' space to a cricket-field which left little to be desired.
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