. Old Boston boys and the games they played . here are numerous legends extant as towhere it was finally picked up. 172 OLD BOSTON BOYS One was that it was stopped while try-ing to get through West Street gate. An-other, that it went down West Street,bounced aboard a passing horse-car andwent out to the Norfolk House. As I was confined at home, I do notknow anything about it, but anyway Nel-son wandered around the bases, and then waited patiently about until it did appear,and often laughed about it in after years. Speaking of long strikes reminds me ofone which I once made where the ball wasne
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . here are numerous legends extant as towhere it was finally picked up. 172 OLD BOSTON BOYS One was that it was stopped while try-ing to get through West Street gate. An-other, that it went down West Street,bounced aboard a passing horse-car andwent out to the Norfolk House. As I was confined at home, I do notknow anything about it, but anyway Nel-son wandered around the bases, and then waited patiently about until it did appear,and often laughed about it in after years. Speaking of long strikes reminds me ofone which I once made where the ball wasnever heard from afterwards. It gives onea queer sensation to bat a ball up into theair and never see it again, yet that is whathappened upon this occasion. I was bat-ting up to the boys one afternoon, and theball, when thrown back to me, rolled on toBeacon Street Mall. I picked it up andbatted it from there. It went straight upinto the thickly leaved trees. I do not re-member hearing it make any sound, andnever saw it again. Whether it wedged.
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