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Roughly comparing 1776 with 1861, it was once more the Tories, the aristocrats, the Lord Norths, who hoped for our overthrow, while the people of England, with certain liberal leaders in Parliament, stood our friends. Just as Pitt and Burke had spoken for us in our Revolution, so Bright and Cobden befriended us now. The parallel ceases when you come to the Sovereign.
"If you watch, you'll see that the luck of the Centrals depends a lot on the way they run the bases. Whew! They go like greased lightning when they're sprinting around the diamond." "Well, why shouldn't they run?" demanded Hi. "Prescott and his fellows have been running every day since the snow went away." "I wish our Norths had been running all the time, too," sighed Bill.
"Prescott has met his match to-day," remarked Ted to a friend. "These Norths will bother you, too, won't they, Ted?" "Us? No; not a bit. We can play all around the Norths. But Central will have to take third place when the series is done." "The Centrals haven't got rattled and skulked, have they?" called Hi Martin at last. A disdainful yell came back from the assembled Central boys.
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