title: In Japan the Crickets Cry: How Could Steve Metcalf Forgive the Japanese?
author:  Ronald Clements 
description: Dr Ronald Clements moved with his wife, Anne, and young daughters to China in 1986, where he lectured in Civil Engineering at a university in Fujian Province until 1996. Ronald is now a full-time writer and researcher and lives in Kent.For many years a missionary in Japan, Steve Metcalf is now retired and living in the UK.
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  A Bushranger at Bay  
    
  
  
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  # A Bushranger at Bay
  
  
  ### E.W. Hornung
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE HON. GUY KENTISH was trotting the globe — an exercise foreign to his habit
  — when he went on to Australia for a reason racy of his blood. He wished to
  witness a certain game of cricket between the full strength of Australia and
  an English team which included one or two young men of his acquaintance. It
  was no part of his original scheme to see anything of the country; one of the
  Australian cricketers put that idea into his head; and it was under inward
  protest that Mr. Kentish found himself smoking his chronic cigar on the
  Glenranald and Clear Corner coach one scorching morning in the month of
  February. He thought he had never seen such a howling desert in his life; and
  it is to be feared that in his heart he appli