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English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket
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| Text | "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." "A Game at Skittles: A Tale," Volume of Varieties (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," Originals, February 2010, page 2. |
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1844.12 English Tale Pictures "Working People" Playing Bass-ball, Cricket"
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