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I wanted to speak encouragingly to him, but Raddy told me to keep quiet. It was inspiring to see my team practice that afternoon. There had come a subtle change. I foresaw one of those baseball climaxes that can be felt and seen, but not explained. Whether it was a hint of the hoped-for brace, or only another flash of form before the final let-down, I had no means to tell. But I was on edge.
"MADAM, Your Aunt Wishes me to inform you she will be glad if you will let hir know if you think of coming To hir House thiss month or Next as she cannot have you in September on a kount of the Hoping If you ar coming she thinkes she had batter Go to London on the Day you com to hir House the says you shall have everry Thing raddy for you at hir House and Mrs.
This was sufficient, considering the score was three to one in our favor, to bring the audience to its feet with a howling, stamping demand for runs. "Spears is wise all right," said Raddy. I watched the foxy old captain walk over to the Rube and talk to him while he rested, a reassuring hand on the pitcher's shoulder.
On one of these meadows, where there is a considerable extent of arable land, we found the village of Raddevski, named in honor of the naturalist Raddy, who explored this region. The resources here were excellent, if I may judge by the quantity and quality of edibles offered to our steward.
The first beast we saw was a raddy, a droll sheep with four daft-like horns, and there came a great crying of curlews; and then, when we came near to the house without yet seeing it, there was a look of wonder in Dan's face. "There was nae grass here when I left hame," says he; "this will be your work, Hamish. Ye were aye a great hand for grass."
Mullaney, you've drawn your salary for two weeks with that spiked foot. If you can't run on it well, all right, but I put it up to your good faith. I've played the game and I know it's hard to run on a sore foot. But you can do it. Ashwell, your ankle is lame, I know now, can you run?" "Sure I can. I'm not a quitter. I'm ready to go in," replied Ashwell. "Raddy, how about you?"
That afternoon, when Raddy let Toronto down with three hits and the boys played a magnificent game behind him, and we won 7 to 2, I knew at last and for certain that the Worcester team had come into its own again. Then next day Cairns won a close, exciting game, and following that, on the third day, the matchless Rube toyed with the Torontos. Eleven straight games won!
I saw Spears shake his head and look toward the bench. It was plain what that meant. "Raddy, I ought to take the Rube out," I said, "but whom can I put in? You worked yesterday Cairns' arm is sore. It's got to be nursed. And Henderson, that ladies' man I just signed, is not in uniform." "I'll go in," replied Raddy, instantly. "Not on your life."
Black Chloe, who had been making slow trips between kitchen and dining-room for some minutes, stopped now to say, in a sort of Arabian Nights measure, "Ef you raddy fuh yo' brekfus, yo' brekfus raddy fuh you." "Better than anybody?" pursued Madeira, but his daughter was drawing him to the table, and he did not notice that her only answer was a quivering laugh.
Raddy was an old pitcher and had seen the rise of a hundred stars. I told him about the game at Rickettsville and what I thought of Rube, and frankly asked his opinion. "Con, you've made the find of your life," said Raddy, quietly and deliberately. This from Radbourne was not only comforting; it was relief, hope, assurance.
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