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|Year=1821
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|Year Number=8
|Headline=English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket
|Headline=English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket
|Year=1844
|Salience=2
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|Tags=Fiction
|Tags=English Base Ball, Females, Fiction,
|Text=<p>"I was lately walking, on a fine spring evening, in the suburbs of a country town . . . . My ramble brought me to a pubic-house by the roadside . . . . 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 amongst us."</p>
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<p>"A Game at Skittles: A Tale," <u>Volume of Varieties</u> (Charles Knight, London, 1844), page 122. Accessed 2/11/10 via Google Books search ("skittles a tale").  Source: Tom Altherr, "Some Findings on Bass Ball," <u>Originals,</u> February 2010, page 2.</p>
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|Text=<p>"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."</p>
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|Sources=<p><br />A Game at Skittles," (author identified as "Editor K."), published within a larger work entitled <em>The Plain Englishman,</em> Vol. II, London, 1821, Hatchard and Son, p. 267</p>
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|Comment=<p><strong>Note:&nbsp;</strong>This entry was formerly listed for 1844 from prior sources.</p>
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|Submitted by=David Block
|Submission Note=Email of 9/16/2020
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|Year Number=12
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English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket

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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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