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Updated: May 26, 2025

Now I was mad, and tried to get him out, but when I'd run to one end he'd run to the other, so we ran up and down till I had a deep-worn trail alongside the log, an' he had a deep-worn trail inside the log, an' I was figgerin' to have him wear it right through at the bottom so the log'd open, but all of a sudden I says, 'I know what to do for you. I took off my boot and stuffs the leg into one end of the log.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

Two days later he writes thus peremptorily of his grandson: "Did the like again, but took not Ben with him. I told him he could not lodge here practicing thus. So he log'd elsewhere." Though Boston boys played "wicket" on Boston Common, I fancy the young Puritans had, as a rule, few games, and were allowed few amusements.

Alice Morse Earle - Customs and Fashions in Old New England