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last Test Match of the Australian Series in the year 198-, with England
needing only twenty-eight runs to win.

Chapter 3

Important facts from Galactic history, number one:
(Reproduced from the Siderial Daily Mentioner's Book of popular Galactic
History.)
The night sky over the planet Krikkit is the least interesting sight in
the entire Universe.

Chapter 4

It was a charming and delightful day at Lord's as Ford and Arthur tumbled
haphazardly out of a space-time anomaly and hit the immaculate turf rather
hard.
The applause of the crowd was tremendous. It wasn't for them, but
instinctively they bowed anyway, which was fortunate because the small red
heavy ball which the crowd actually had been applauding whistled mere
millimetres over Arthur's head. In the crowd a man collapsed.
They threw themselves back to the ground which seemed to spin hideously
around them.
"What was that?" hissed Arthur.
"Something red," hissed Ford back at him.
"Where are we?"
"Er, somewhere green."
"Shapes," muttered Arthur. "I need shapes."
The applause of the crowd had been rapidly succeeded by gasps of
astonishment, and the awkward titters of hundreds of people who could not yet
make up their minds about whether to believe what they had just seen or not.
"This your sofa?" said a voice.
"What was that?" whispered Ford.
Arthur looked up.
"Something blue," he said.
"Shape?" said Ford.
Arthur looked again.
"It is shaped," he hissed at Ford, with his brow savagely furrowing, "like
a policeman."
They remained crouched there for a few moments, frowning deeply. The blue
thing shaped like a policeman tapped them both on the shoulders.
"Come on, you two," the shape said, "let's be having you."
These words had an electrifying effect on Arthur. He leapt to his feet
like an author hearing the phone ring and shot a series of startled glanced at
the panorama around him which had suddenly settled down into something of
quite terrifying ordinariness.
"Where did you get this from?" he yelled at the policeman shape.
"What did you say?" said the startled shape.
"This is Lord's Cricket Ground, isn't it?" snapped Arthur. "Where did you
find it, how did you get it here? I think," he added, clasping his hand to his
brow, "that I had better calm down." He squatted down abruptly in front of