Baseball Joe on the Giants

. For one who usually had a very good opinion

scarcely know where to begin. I'm afr

man who makes a mistake but the one who makes the same mistake twice. The perfe

for me to tell you what I've got to say. But before I go any further, let me ask you

im for the first time yesterday. Rather un

see him?" asked

umber pile," w

d his friend, with a puzzled air.

nd threatening to throw it down o

, as though he thought he wa

old chap," he said. "Tell me

ings of the day before, while Reggie

marveled. "That aim of yours is certainly a pippin.

ly had to get him on that first try. If I'd missed him

id Reggie. "Are you sure that he's perfectly saf

but I guess he'll keep him right and tight. Besides, he was strapped to the bed when I saw him this morning. I gave Han

e, with a sigh of relief. "I'm

now, suppose you loosen up and tell me just why yo

I haven't even told Mabel about it, though she and I have been close pals ever since we were children. And as for bre

k from revealing anything to the stern, gruff father, of whom he had caught an occa

me time that I ought to settle down-make something of

the phantom of pleasure rather than facing the sober realities of things as they are. Had he been any one else than the brother of Mabel, Joe would simply have classed him as a social b

man," he said approvingly. "There

ised himself that his son, if he ever had one, shouldn't have so hard a time of it as he had had. So he gave me everything I wanted-plenty of money, a tour of Europe, motor boat, automobile, and all that sort of thing, don

nge blindness, men who had risen to wealth by their own endeavors had been

e matter off. But when he saw that I was in earnest it set him thi

you. Just as one throws a puppy into deep water so that the pup will either have to swim or drow

back to me with a package. He ripped off a rubber band,

naged roads in the country, and these are as good as government bonds. I'm going to put these absolutely in your hands to do with precisely as you like. Turn them into cash, pledge them, sell them, invest them-do anything you w

st coupons and presenting them when they come due. But that isn't my idea. Any fool could use a pair of scissors. What I want y

stumped. You could have kno

dollars! That's an awful lot of money to have plumped down before y

and that what he did with it was no one's business but his own. The only condition was that I shouldn't use it for anything except

ow!" cried Joe, who had grown hugely interested in the story of th

" echoed Reggie ruefully.

feet so violently that he overturn

gie, averting his eyes from those of his

--" stammered

an old proverb is tr

prov

are soon parted,'" re