The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 46
s a sport that connects every classsir, and puts on one level the peasant and the peer, the sportof Britons all over the globe, and none of your foreign kick-shaws, moves me not. I am determined, youth and old agenotwithstanding, to repeat my original question in a spirit ofhistorical inquiry. What… … CRICKET IN 1743. (FROM AN OLD PRINT.) ■the rival congregation on the hill at Harrow, for bothare agreed on the point that its the jolliest game underthe sun. Never mind, my young friends, spare your ire, for I belongto the order of mammalia and am pachydermatous as the rhi-noceros. Even the…
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