When You Were a Boy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from When You Were a Boy

Spunk carey old straw? Fat Day, you recollect, had a cap upon the front of which was lettered his rank Captain It seems as though mother made you a cap, as well as the striped trousers and breastplate. The cap was furnished with a tremendously deep Vizor of pasteboard, and was formed of four segments, two white and two blue, meetmg ln the center of the crown.

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Excerpt from When You Were a Boy

Fat Day was captain and pitcher. He was captain because, if he was not, he wouldn't play, and inasmuch as he owned the ball, this would have been disastrous; and he was pitcher because he was captain.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.