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Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers'
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Chapbooks for Juveniles, FictionChapbooks for Juveniles, Fiction |
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| City/State/Country: | United States |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | O' Cat?O' Cat? |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | JuvenileJuvenile |
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| 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.
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| Sources | "A Mother," Choice Medley. American Sunday School Union, 1843. |
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| 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. Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | 19CBB posting of 1/13/2021 |
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1843.10 Juvenile Book's Chapter: "A Game at Ball": 'Cheating play never prospers'"
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