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English Essayist Praises Youth Playing Bass-ball and Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Tags English Base Ball, Females, Fiction
City/State/Country: England
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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"There is nothing to me more delightful than to see the young working people amusing themselves after the labours of the day. A village green, with its girls and boys playing at bass-ball, and its grown-up lads at cricket, is one of those English sights which I hope no false refinement will ever banish from among us."

 

 

 

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A Game at Skittles," (author identified as "Editor K."), published within a larger work entitled The Plain Englishman, Vol. II, London, 1821, Hatchard and Son, p. 267

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Note: This entry was formerly listed for 1844 from prior sources.

The location of the village play in not given.

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Submitted by David Block
Submission Note Email of 9/16/2020



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