Word: picketing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crease on Jarvis is not a particularly good one, and the club is cramped by the small ground it is compelled to occupy, it being a very poor incentive to good batting to have tennis nets before one, and seats or picket fences at each side. And the mucker who "shacks" earns every cent he gets, by scrambling over the afore-named obstacles on an average of once a minute, to collect the balls which have been driven there...
...course led across the yard, through Divinity Avenue, and into Norton woods where the scent was lost for a few moments. The course now led towards the Somerville bleachery, and over Winter hill where the omnipresent "mucker" had laid false trails and baffled the hounds for several minutes. Picket fences, unpleasant bogs, vegetable gardens, etc, had to be crossed, but these difficulties only served to give more excitement to the sport...
...marked out a false track toward Christ Church and into a neighboring yard. After several minutes of precious time had been wasted in investigating this trick, the hounds once more took up the scent on Concord Avenue to the Arsenal, where they all had to take the high picket fence, Across fields and roads, up Bowdoin, Linnean and Raymond street. to the redolent settlement in North Cambridge, called "Dublin," the chase lay clear enough. Then over the railroad and up the avenue, and finally toward the old Somerville powder house. Here the hounds were again at fault in a large...
...night on picket guard I stood...