WITH the cricketing season now well upon us, Derek Smith of Earlestown has been puzzling over the origins of 'stumping up' as in making a payment.
Does it, he wonders, have anything to do with the bat and ball game; or has it another, more obscure origin?
IF you know, or have a similar puzzler to put to our readers, then please drop me a line at the Star.
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