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By Norman Gale

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[If hours in nets and hours in games]

If hours in nets and hours in games
are added truthfully together,
i must have run twelve thousand miles
in loyalty to solid leather.
loaning his legs some forty years
to cricket till their worth is ended
should help a man to worry less
about the job that can't be mended.