1821.8

English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	English Base Ball, Females, FictionEnglish Base Ball, Females, Fiction
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Text	"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."
Sources	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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Submitted by	David Block
Submission Note	Email of 9/16/2020
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