I have been wondering if 'Bang---ow-ow' was what cost the Souths the game ?" "I don't quite believe that," replied Dick.

"Yet I am certain that it took a lot of starch out of Ted himself.

Do you remember that time when he went over and spoke to his fellows ?" "Yes," nodded Greg.
"Well," Dick pursued, "I've heard since that that was the time when Ted went over and begged his fellows to 'can' all funny talk until the game was over." "But they didn't," chuckled Dan.
"That was why Ted was so angry at the end." "Anyway," Tom insisted, "Teall isn't likely to bother us any more." "Either he'll quit on the funny talk," agreed Prescott, "or else he'll go to the other extreme and be more tantalizing than ever." It would greatly have interested these Central Grammar boys had they known that the subject of their conversation was even then listening to them.

Ted Teall, sore and angry, had come away from town all by himself.

He wanted a long swim in the pond, to see if that would cool off the anger that consumed him.
Hearing voices as he came through the woods, Ted halted first, then, crawling along the ground, made his way cautiously forward.
And now the captain of the South Grammar nine lay flat, his head hidden behind a clump of low bushes.
"Having fun over me, are they ?" growled Ted.
"It was a rough trick to play, of course," laughed Dick.