Professor Richard Hofstadter writes that penalties for servants who breached their contracts ranged from extending their contracts by double the time the master lost while they were gone to as much a ten-to-one penalty authorized in Maryland at one time.
Fresh from his first innings double century, the 'Little Master' was irresistible, smashing Hauritz for successive sixes over midwicket before rocking back and driving the same bowler twice through the covers for four.