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<p> </p> <p> I had heard of that call</p> <p> For the game of round-ball,</p> <p>So I went to the grounds after dinner;</p> <p> But the play had begun,</p> <p> And I knew there’d be fun,</p> <p>But I could not imagine the winner.</p> <p> </p> <p> For the ball and the bat</p> <p> Were both tit for tat,</p> <p>While good playing enlivened the game;</p> <p> There were Otis and Drake,</p> <p> Never made a mistake,</p> <p>And Doctor C. always the same.</p> <p> </p> <p> Then the laughter grew loud</p> <p> As it spread through the crowd</p> <p>Just like an acute epidemic;</p> <p> Then we heard the boys shout</p> <p> “We have just put ‘em out,”</p> <p>And “Bully for you, Mister Remick.”</p> <p> </p> <p> We then heard it said</p> <p> That our jolly friend Fred,</p> <p>His heart all alive with expansion,</p> <p> In a true modern style</p> <p> He had bet quite a pile</p> <p>On the boys that belong to the Mansion.</p> <p> </p> <p> But the Milford Hotel,</p> <p> Like a beautiful belle,</p> <p>With all the good luck we could wish her –</p> <p> Now salutes her compeer</p> <p> With a hearty good cheer,</p> <p>And a health to both Scammell and Fisher.</p> <p> </p> <p> She remembers the hits</p> <p> Which gave the ball fits,</p> <p>And sent it where they hadn’t oughter,</p> <p> And such glorious fun,</p> <p> Just to see the boys run,</p> <p>Really tickl’d your humble reporter.</p> <p> J.H.C. (J. H. Cunnabel)</p>
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