All of the lands that are outside of the Wicket Gate and the area encompassed by the " walls and borders of that region, wherein lay the way to the heavenly country " are known as the " Valley of Destruction . " The time that Tender-Conscience begins his pilgrimage is a time of drought and heat, which is emblematic of a time of the persecution.
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Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep s wool ( or even a stone or a small lump of wood ) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a stool or a tree stump or a gate ( e . g ., a wicket gate ) as the wicket.
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Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep's wool ( or even a stone or a small lump of wood ) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a gate ( e . g ., a wicket gate ), a stool or a tree stump as the wicket.
