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- 1730c.2 + (<p>"I can't say I am sorry I was nev … <p>"I can't say I am sorry I was never quite a school-boy: an expedition against bargemen or a match at cricket may be very pretty things to recollect; but thank my stars, I can remember things very near as pretty."</p></br><p>Letter from Horace Walpole to George Montagu, May 6, 1736. One interpretation of this letter: "Horace Walpole was sent to Eton in 1726. Playing cricket, as well as bashing bargemen, was common at that time:" Pycroft, John, <u>The Cricket Field; or, The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket</u>, second edition (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1854), page 43.</p>edition (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1854), page 43.</p>)