The Narrow House

his cheering. And when the happy players gathered up their trappings and started for the adjacent academy, where in the basement gymnasium the Wyndhamites had given them a

le with an open hand. "That measly little tap of your

the language that fashion," grinned Cran

hands his antagonist when he gives him a two-ton jolt on th

a long shot. If old Texas hadn'

t they'd corralled the game after all. The way you raked down Cohen's drive was sure som

r get through him," declared Ned Osgood; "but Sleut

peaker a quizzical gla

be so necessary to their comfort on the long homeward drive; and, unable to keep still, Shultz cut in with an occasional sarcastic remark

try to follow Osgood's trail and make a pretense o

ple, and he glared at the Texan as if he longed to seize th

arled, "and I propose to say what I please

n a twinkling had not Nelson

ing to take on that awesome and terrible look which indicated that his fiery

odney, his voice vibrant with the passion he could scarcely restrain. "He's been sn

ody's," asserted the captain.

because he disagreed with you about sacrificing when he got the kind of a ball he knew he ought to hit out, you show your a

much less a new player like you. If you and Osgood came to Oakdale with the idea that you'r

good had his fr

's true it seemed to me we'd be weakening ourselves by a sacrifice with one man down, but still, I meant to follow instructions when I went to the plate. It was only when I saw that ball coming across the pan so nicely that I forgot everything and tried to land on it for a safe drive. Even though in that moment I was led to forget inst

k his head and laughed, although perhap

sgood. It may be that we're very shortsighted in failing to perceive the splendid opportunity we have for learning something about real

of temper, at least; but he was crafty and far too clever not to realize that such a thing would be likely to put him at

s that Oakdale Academy was a school of my mother's choice, not mine, and mothers who are fearful of the tem

termined that I should get my preparatory education far from the evil influenc

fellers," Sile Crane could

that I happened to know something about the game as it's played to-day not only in big schools and colleges, but in big leagues. I've never missed an opportunity of seeing a Big League game and trying to wise up on the m

n suspected him of the very purpose which he so ardently disclaimed. Shultz, who knew his friend's secret motives better than any one else, really found it difficult to supp

quick perception told him that to a large extent Osgood had created a fav

both shown that you can play baseball, and if you show a willingness to respect the wishes of

ot a professor who's alive and who takes interest in some things besides books. Old Prof. Richardson has outlived his usefulness as a teacher. He's let the times pass on and leave him about thirty years behind. Who ever saw him at a baseball game, or any similar sport? The Wyndham prof

r sports, but he's a good principal and does his work well in the class room. His health isn't always the be

an will lose his job. Some day before long you'll see a younger, more up-to-date pr

at threatened to produce a disturbance and some hard feelings on the team. That business is all settled now, and I think we underst

dressing for the jaunt home, the boys were again chatt