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|Text=<p>"There was a big field near his old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "round cat" and "chermany" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbit-traps in seasons of frost and snow."</p>
|Text=<p>"There was a big field near his old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "round cat" and "chermany" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbit-traps in seasons of frost and snow."</p>
<p>Armistead C. Gordon, "His Father's Flag," <u>Scribner's Magazine</u> Volume 62 (1917), page 443.  This fictional story of the son of a Confederate soldier killed during the Civil War is set near Dragon Swamp, which is NNE of Richmond.  The two games named are known as ballgames played in the south.  Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search (scribners "volume lxii").</p>
<p>Armistead C. Gordon, "His Father's Flag," <u>Scribner's Magazine</u> Volume 62 (1917), page 443.  This fictional story of the son of a Confederate soldier killed during the Civil War is set near Dragon Swamp, which is NNE of Richmond.  The two games named are known as ballgames played in the south.  Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search (scribners "volume lxii").</p>

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"There was a big field near his old home where he and the other boys, black and white, had played "round cat" and "chermany" in the summers before the war and had set their rabbit-traps in seasons of frost and snow."

Armistead C. Gordon, "His Father's Flag," Scribner's Magazine Volume 62 (1917), page 443. This fictional story of the son of a Confederate soldier killed during the Civil War is set near Dragon Swamp, which is NNE of Richmond. The two games named are known as ballgames played in the south. Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search (scribners "volume lxii").

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