Autumn Cricket

This is a ghost story suitable for Christmas, although it is set in Autumn, when the cricket season is over.
You do not have to like or know anything about cricket, to appreciate this lovely story.
As a feminist, I have illustrated the story from Modger's wife's angle. It was written at a time when (male) middle-class busybodies could influence the local Doctors (who they probably knew from their Mason's meetings) to try and lock up an old fellow in a lunatic asylum, for something trivial, which they deemed to be against Health & Safety. Especially if, as here, the poor people, whose lives they were playing with, lived in some kind of tied cottage on one of their estates.
I imagined the feelings of the old couple, threatened with being forcibly separated, for the first time in their long marriage.
I am sure Dunsany was also criticising this attitude towards the Modgers.

I have been illustrating Dunsany's stories all my life as an amateur artist, you can see some of them on this page of my website:
https://ww.radicalcartoons.com/lord-dunsany-page

I am thrilled to have received permission to use this story from the current Lord Dunsany. You can find him at:
@randal_plunkett on Instagram

Music used in this video from YouTube music library:
Tragic Story by MYUU
Artist: @Myuusic on Twitter
YouTube Audio Library licence
Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://incompetech.com/