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|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Females, Fiction,  
|Tags=Females, Fiction,  
|Location=England, Bass Ball
|Location=England
|Game=Rounders,  
|Game=Rounders, Bass Ball, Single-Wicket Cricket,  
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Age of Players=Juvenile, Youth
|Text=<p>"The rest of the party strolled about the field, or joined merrily in a game of <strong>bass-ball</strong> or <strong>rounders</strong>, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds." .</p>
|Text=<p>"The rest of the party strolled about the field, or joined merrily in a game of <strong>bass-ball</strong> or <strong>rounders</strong>, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds." .</p>
<p>As a way of teaching nature [each chapter introduces several birds, insects, and "wild plants"] this book follows a group of boys and girls of unspecified age [seriously pre-pubescent, we guess] through a calendar year. The bass-ball/rounders reference above is one of the few times we run across both terms in a contemporary writing. So, now: are there two distinct <em>games</em> with different rules, or just two distinct <em>names</em> for the same game?&nbsp; The syntax here leaves that distinction muddy, as it could be the former answer if the children played bass-ball and rounders separately that [June] day.</p>
<p>As a way of teaching nature [each chapter introduces several birds, insects, and "wild plants"] this book follows a group of boys and girls of unspecified age [post-pubescent, we guess] through a calendar year. The bass-ball/rounders reference above is one of the few times we run across both terms in a contemporary writing. So, now: Is the author denoting are there two distinct <em>games</em> with different rules, or just two distinct <em>names</em> for the same game?&nbsp; The syntax here leaves that distinction muddy, as it could be the former answer if the children played bass-ball and rounders separately that [June] day.</p>
<p><strong>Cricket</strong> receives three references (pages 75, 110, and 211)in this book. The first of these, unlike the bass-ball account, separates English boys from English girls after a May tea party: "Some of the gentlemen offered prizes of bats and balls, and skipping-ropes, for feats of activity or skill in running, leaping, playing <strong>cricket</strong>, &amp;c. with the boys; and skipping, and battledore and shuttlecock with the girls."</p>
<p><strong>Cricket</strong> receives three references (pages 75, 110, and 211)in this book. The first of these, unlike the bass-ball/rounders account, separates English boys from English girls after a May tea party: "Some of the gentlemen offered prizes of bats and balls, and skipping-ropes, for feats of activity or skill in running, leaping, playing <strong>cricket</strong>, &amp;c. with the boys; and skipping, and battledore and shuttlecock with the girls."</p>
<p><strong>Trap-ball</strong> receives one uninformative mention in the book (page 211).</p>
<p><strong>Trap-ball</strong> receives one uninformative mention in the book (page 211).</p>
|Sources=<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Year of Country Life: or, the Chronicle of the Young Naturalists</span> (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1853), page 115.</p>
|Sources=<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Year of Country Life: or, the Chronicle of the Young Naturalists</span> (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1853), page 115.</p>
|Comment=<p>Richard's take on the bass-ball/rounders ambiguity: "t possible that there were two games the party played . . . but the likelier interpretation is that this was one game, with both names given to ensure clarity." David Block [email of 2/27/2008] agrees with Richard. Richard also says "It is possible that as the English dialect moved from "base ball" to "rounders," English society concurrently moved from the game being played primarily played by boys and only sometimes being played by girls. I am not qualified to say."</p>
|Comment=<p>Richard's take on the bass-ball/rounders ambiguity: "It is possible that there were two games the party played . . . but the likelier interpretation is that this was one game, with both names given to ensure clarity." David Block [email of 2/27/2008] agrees with Richard. Richard also says "It is possible that as the English dialect moved from "base ball" to "rounders," English society concurrently moved from the game being played primarily played by boys and only sometimes being played by girls. I am not qualified to say."</p>
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger, 1/30/2008 posting to 19CBB
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger, 1/30/2008 posting to 19CBB
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Didactic Novel Pairs "Bass-Ball" and Rounders at Youths' Outing

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Females, Fiction
Location England
Game Rounders, Bass Ball, Single-Wicket Cricket
Age of Players Juvenile, Youth
Text

"The rest of the party strolled about the field, or joined merrily in a game of bass-ball or rounders, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds." .

As a way of teaching nature [each chapter introduces several birds, insects, and "wild plants"] this book follows a group of boys and girls of unspecified age [post-pubescent, we guess] through a calendar year. The bass-ball/rounders reference above is one of the few times we run across both terms in a contemporary writing. So, now: Is the author denoting are there two distinct games with different rules, or just two distinct names for the same game?  The syntax here leaves that distinction muddy, as it could be the former answer if the children played bass-ball and rounders separately that [June] day.

Cricket receives three references (pages 75, 110, and 211)in this book. The first of these, unlike the bass-ball/rounders account, separates English boys from English girls after a May tea party: "Some of the gentlemen offered prizes of bats and balls, and skipping-ropes, for feats of activity or skill in running, leaping, playing cricket, &c. with the boys; and skipping, and battledore and shuttlecock with the girls."

Trap-ball receives one uninformative mention in the book (page 211).

Sources

 A Year of Country Life: or, the Chronicle of the Young Naturalists (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1853), page 115.

Comment

Richard's take on the bass-ball/rounders ambiguity: "It is possible that there were two games the party played . . . but the likelier interpretation is that this was one game, with both names given to ensure clarity." David Block [email of 2/27/2008] agrees with Richard. Richard also says "It is possible that as the English dialect moved from "base ball" to "rounders," English society concurrently moved from the game being played primarily played by boys and only sometimes being played by girls. I am not qualified to say."

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