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|Title=Girl in 1827 Short Story Scolded for Playing "Bass Ball"
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1827/01/01
|Block Game=English Baseball
|Block Location=London/Durham
|Block Data=<p>Mention of "bass-ball" in a short story entitled "The Gipsey (sic) Girl," that appeared in The Amulet, an anthology of stories and poems. In the story a school mistress is scolding a young girl: "You can't say three times three without missing; you'd rather play at bass-ball, or hunt the hedges for wild flowers, than mend your stockings."</p>
|Sources=<p>"The Gipsey (sic) Girl," by A.M.H., appearing in The Amulet: or, Christian and Literary Remembrancer, London, 1828, W. Baynes &amp; Son, p. 423</p>
|Block Notes=<p>Although dated 1828, this work was published in mid-1827 and was reviewed in the October 13, 1827 issue of "The London Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &amp;c.," p. 657. The story appears to have been set in southern Durham County along the River Tees.</p>
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