Match day came and Gryllus rubens felt too sick to play.
He had a rather nasty case of mumps.
I forced his friend, the grasshopper, to stand in for the day,
and so he stood there, shaking at the stumps.
Although he did his very best, he really couldn’t bat.
The other team was quick to take his wicket.
And if there is a lesson to be learned, it’s surely that
forcing grasshoppers to play just isn’t cricket!
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Paul Hughes 2010
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Gryllus rubens – Latin name for a kind of cricket
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