CHAPTER XXXVII 

MIKE FINDS OCCUPATION 

There was more than one moment during the first fortnight of term when Mike found himself regretting the attitude he had imposed upon himself with regard to Sedleighan cricket. He began to realise the eternal truth of the proverb about half a loaf and no bread. In the first flush of his resentment against his new surroundings he had refused to play cricket. And now he positively ached for a game. Any sort of a game. An innings for a Kindergarten _v._ the Second Eleven of a Home of Rest for Centenarians would have soothed him. There were times, when the sun shone, and he caught sight of white flannels on a green ground, and heard the "plonk" of bat striking ball, when he felt like rushing to Adair and shouting, "I _will_ be good. I was in the Wrykyn team three years, and had an average of over fifty the last two seasons. Lead me to the nearest net, and let me feel a bat in my hands again." 

But every time he shrank from such a climb down. It couldn't be done. 

What made it worse was that he saw, after watching behind the nets once or twice, that Sedleigh cricket was not the childish burlesque of the game which he had been rash enough to assume that it must be. Numbers do not make good cricket. They only make the presence of good cricketers more likely, by the law of averages. 

Mike soon saw that cricket was by no means an unknown art at Sedleigh. Adair, to begin with, was a very good bowler indeed. He was not a Burgess, but Burgess was the only Wrykyn bowler whom, in his three years' experience of the school, Mike would have placed above him. He was a long way better than Neville-Smith, and Wyatt, and Milton, and the others who had taken wickets for Wrykyn.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. What is the name of the main character in the story?
2. What is the story's main character called?
3. 
Q2:
1. What is the name of the sport that Mike didn't want to play at first?
2. At first, Mike didn't want to play which sport?
3. 
Q3:
1. Did Mike like his surroundings at first?
2. Were the surroundings appreciated by Mike initially?
3. 
Q4:
1. Did Mike want to play cricket eventually?
2. Did Mike eventually want to play cricket?
3. 
Q5:
1. Did Mike ever go and play cricket?
2. Was cricket something that was played by Mike eventually?
3. 
Q6:
1. Was cricket the type of game that Mike had expected?
2. Did Mike expect cricket to be the type of game that it was?
3. 
Q7:
1. What is the name of the person that is playing in the bowler position?
2. The bowler position is taken by which person in the story?
3. 
Q8:
1. What is the name of the place that Burgess plays for?
2. Burgess plays for what place?
3. 
Q9:
1. What is the name of the person that was a bowler at Sedleigh?
2. Which person used to be a bowler at Sedleigh?
3. 
Q10:
1. Adair was a better bowler than how many people in the story?
2. What is the number of people in the story that were not as good at bowling as Adair?
3. 
