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Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers'

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Chapbooks for Juveniles, Fiction
City/State/Country: United States
Game O' Cat?
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
Text
    “You may get that ball yourself, Allen Bates,” exclaimed a boy about twelve years of age, as he turned away from the play-ground; “for as to climbing that high fence to get into the stable-yard again, I am not the fellow that’s going to do it.”
 
    “Do not be in a passion, Jimmy,” replied Allen, tauntingly.  “Be calm, my lad,” added he, as he patted him provokingly on the shoulder.
 
    “Hands off,” said James in a loud tone, “I will have no more to do with such a cheat.  ‘Cheating play never prospers;’ and you have knocked the ball over that fence four times, on purpose to prevent me from getting the ball-club.  I am sure the play-ground is large enough, and you strong enough to leave me but small chance of getting the ball and hitting you before you get back to your place, without cheating.
Sources

"A Mother," Choice Medley. American Sunday School Union, 1843.

Comment

Richard Hershberger, 1/13/2021:

[] It is exactly what one would expect.  The first chapter is "Game at Ball."  It is a morality tale about self-control.  It opens with a fight nearly breaking out [see text, above.]

[] This (image) looks to me like old cat, the fielder trying to burn the batter, the two trading places if he succeeds.  There also is a frontispiece illustrating the scene.  I'm not sure if we can post images in this brave new (list-serve) format, but here goes.  Note the forms of the bats.  One looks to me like a wicket bat, the other like a hockey stick

 

 

 

 

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[] It appears that the batsman is obliged to run to a second marker and then return; is that the way one-o-cat was commonly played?  (It does appear to be the rule for barn ball.)  -- Protoball functionary, 2/2/2021.

 

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Source Image
Choice Medley - Game at Ball.png
Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Submission Note 19CBB posting of 1/13/2021



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