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A Pleasant Beech Grove, Where the Boys Played Bass Ball

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Fiction
City/State/Country: United States
Game Bass Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

"A little way from the school-house . . .  was a pleasant beech grove, where the boys played bass ball, and where the girls carried disused benches and see-sawed over fallen logs."

Sources

Alice Carey, Clovernook: or, Recollections of Our Neighborhood in the West (Redfield, Clinton Hall NY, 1852), page 280.  G-Book search: <"beech grove" "alice carey">.

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Submitted by David Block
Submission Note Email of 2/12/2013



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