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Will Satan Snag the Sunday Player?

Salience Noteworthy
City/State/Country: Wales, UK
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

"Take care that here on Sunday/None of you play at ball,/For fear that on the Monday/The Devil takes you all." Inscription on the Church Wall of a small village in Wales.

 

Sources

Mercantile Advertiser, August 3, 1799, page 2, column 3.

 

Weekly Museum, April 19, 1800, Vol. 12, No. 27. page 2.

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We have no indication as to when the inscription was carved.

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Submitted by John Thorn, George Thompson
Submission Note John sent the 1800 item on 4/24/06; George sent the 1799 ref 3/31/2013.



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