History of Cricket in The West Indies To 1918

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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
—William James (1842–1910)

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“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

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