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- 1706.2 + (<p>[Author?] <span style="text-de … <p>[Author?] <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Scotch rogue; or, The life and actions of Donald MacDonald, a Highland Scot</span> [London], per David Block, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Be</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">fore We Knew It</span></span>, page 176. The [apparently fictional] hero recalls; "I was but a sorry proficient in learning: being readier at <em>cat and doug, cappy-hole,</em> riding the <em>burley hacket,</em> playing at <em>kyles and dams</em>, <em>spangboder, wrestling, and foot-ball</em> (and such other sports as we use in our country) than at my book."</p></br><p>Block identifies "cat and doug," or cat and dog, as a Scots two-base version of the game of cat that was most commonly played in Scotland. It was the likely forbear of the American game of two-old-cat."</p>ots two-base version of the game of cat that was most commonly played in Scotland. It was the likely forbear of the American game of two-old-cat."</p>)