"Oh---pshaw! Of course you'd think of something like that to say." "If you're lamed any by your little trip," offered Tom, "I'll leave left field to do your base running for you this afternoon." "Yah! I'll bet you would," jeered Teall.

"And if I let you, I'd be down on the score card for three less than no runs at all." "You will, anyway," said Reade gravely.
"Somehow," broke in Dan, "I feel unusually happy this afternoon." "That's because you know we're going to win to-day," laughed Dick.
"Oh, that's a part of it, yes," Dalzell agreed.

"But the real cause of my happy feeling is that I'm going to find out what the man on the clubhouse steps said.

That's what I've been aching to know ever since some time last winter." "The time will pass shortly now, Danny Grin," Prescott remarked comfortingly.
By this time a score of spectators had arrived.

Then came a few High School boys, among them Ben Tozier, who was again to umpire.
"Tozier, what's the High School delegation for ?" Dan asked.
"To find out who'll be handy for the High School nine next year ?" "Perhaps," Ben replied gravely.