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Athletic Welsh Lad Plays Rounders

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Text	"I became fleet on my legs, and a good climber, I was an expert at ball catching in rounders (cricket being unknown in Wales at the time), and when I left school, my name was the only one inscribed or the loftiest trees." Josiah Hughes, Australia Revisited in 1890 (Nixon and Jarvis, Bangor, 1891), page 482. Accessed 2/9/10 via Google Books search ("josiah hughes" revisited). Hughes, born in 1829 in Wales, here recalls his time at a school in Holywell in the north of Wales.
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 |Text=<p>"I became fleet on my legs, and a good climber, I was an expert at ball catching in rounders (cricket being unknown in Wales at the time), and when I left school, my name was the only one inscribed or the loftiest trees."</p>
 <p>Josiah Hughes, <u>Australia</u> <u>Revisited in 1890</u> (Nixon and Jarvis, Bangor, 1891), page 482.  Accessed 2/9/10 via Google Books search ("josiah hughes" revisited).  Hughes, born in 1829 in Wales, here recalls his time at a school in Holywell in the north of Wales.</p>
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