. Old Boston boys and the games they played . THOMAS NELSON OLD BOSTON BOYS 173 itself into a fork, plumped into a hole, orimbedded itself in a limb, like the cannon-ball in the old Brattle Street Church, Icannot say. Another afternoon, while I was againbatting to the outfield, Mr. Francis Gard-ner, Master of the Public Latin School,came along the Spruce Street path andstood watching me a while. Presently, heapproached and said, Lovett, I hear thatyou can put a ball about where you like;can you send it down to Hawes (pointingto Henry Hawes, down in the long field), so that he wont have to move
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . THOMAS NELSON OLD BOSTON BOYS 173 itself into a fork, plumped into a hole, orimbedded itself in a limb, like the cannon-ball in the old Brattle Street Church, Icannot say. Another afternoon, while I was againbatting to the outfield, Mr. Francis Gard-ner, Master of the Public Latin School,came along the Spruce Street path andstood watching me a while. Presently, heapproached and said, Lovett, I hear thatyou can put a ball about where you like;can you send it down to Hawes (pointingto Henry Hawes, down in the long field), so that he wont have to move out of histracks for Now, if Mr. Gardner had asked me togive him a list of the twenty-six preposi-tions (or was it a hundred and twenty-six ?)followed by the accusative, I should prob-ably have balked; but I was now on myown quarter-deck and so answered withbrazen assurance that I thought I could. Let her go, then, he said, and I accord- 174 OLD BOSTON BOYS ingly let her go, and knew, the instant theball left the bat, that it was going
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