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It is not their first rodeo, one can see, but I should wish they were with mamma and the buckboard, instead of out here in the brush, charging wild bulls, though in truth this never were written. These bulls frequently charge men, and a cow-pony turns like a ball off a bat, and a slippery seat in the saddle may put you under the feet of the outraged monarch of the range.
Call for you to-night at five; but don't you play that story up." It was then and there Bat showed himself a past master. He sauntered out of the office humming. "Say, Brydges," called the youth, "what's wrong with this account, anyway?" "All wrong," reiterated Brydges stepping back. "Wasn't a man lost his life. Wasn't a man on the Range at the time, only a kid got in the way of a stampede!
There are certain things which it is dangerous to question or discuss, and how can ladies who have never spoken with any other man than a parent or a brother judge such matters? "How, indeed," asked this lady of exalted merit, "can the bat form an idea of the sunlight, or the carp of the motion of wings?
Hast thou heard in Rome of a plot against the life of Pilate?" "Whether plot I know not. But by evil omens is the day marked for him, deadly as the Ides of March." "Evil omens? From an oracle?" "From an oracle under the wings of a raven and bat. Came the omen from the entrails of a falcon which, when spread before the oracle, did lift themselves one against the other.
"Now you mention it, I do have a faint recollection of that marvelous accident. You were trying to dodge the ball, weren't you, Sile? You just shut your blinkers and ducked, and Pitkins' inshoot carromed off the bat over into right field and got lost in the grass. If we all hadn't yelled for you to run, you'd be standing there now, wondering what had happened."
I was feeling horribly anxious lest I should die without knowing whether it was of Doe or of me that he had spoken, when Radley cleared up the matter by saying: "He's playing a straight bat, isn't he?" So it was Doe. Well, he was clever, I supposed, but not as clever as all that. "Straight bat, rather!" agreed Chappy. "Does he play a straight bat in all things?"
Virat moistened his lips with the tip of his tongue. "What do you want here?" he asked huskily. "Oh, nothin' much," said Larry the Bat airily. "I thought mabbe youse might figure dere was some of dem bonds comin' ter me." "Bonds! I don't know anything about any bonds," said Virat, in a low voice. "I don't know what you are talking about. "You don't eh?" inquired Larry the Bat ominously.
That crowd's as law-abiding as a cow, and if it weren't, it's on our side." "How do you know?" asked the professor, staring. "You blind bat," cried Bull, "don't you see who is leading them?" They peered again, and then the Colonel, with a catch in his voice, cried out "Why, it's Renard!"
If he could be hit with the ball at any time when he was between bases he was out, and he was forced to be back to the striker's position in time to take his turn at bat. This made him take chances in running. No count was kept of runs.
Then Seti laughed in his careless fashion, and replied: "Have your way, since it is a rule that none of the royal blood of Egypt may refuse hospitality to those who seek it, having been their friends, and I will not quote against your moth what a bat whispered in my ears last night. Nay, none of your salutations revealed to you by insects or by the future," and he gave him his hand to kiss.
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