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Cochrane had a skill at writing light verse, and his writing had a graceful touch. He wrote of cricket – the "uncertain game" – and of "the man who snicketh the length ball." He was interested in the nineteenth-century writers of light verse, especially in J K S
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537:"Records of the Harlequins" 1930
531:"The Sweeper of the Leaves" 1908
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