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Then he looked around curiously. "If the Centrals are here yet, why don't they come out of the crowd and receive us?" inquired Martin rather pompously. His insinuation that Dick's fellows might be mixed with the crowd was a slur on the Central boys not possessing uniforms. "Our fellows are not here yet, but they will be soon, you bet," called back a Central boy.
The second man for the Souths struck out. "Teall at bat!" called the score-keeper. Hi Martin and a lot of the North Grammar boys had come to the field late. Hi didn't like to see the score two to nothing in favor of the Centrals. He would have preferred to have the Souths win. "Let's get Prescott rattled?" whispered Martin. "I don't believe you can do it," replied Bill Rodgers.
"Don't be afraid of the Centrals -the fellows who stole their uniforms from a lunatic in the woods." Dick heard the senseless taunt and understood it. But it didn't anger or confuse him. Instead, the ball left his hand with surer guidance. But a crowd of Central fans also heard, and imagined that the yell came from one of the groups of Souths.
For the Central boys wore uniforms that made Hi Martin's fellows look like so many gaudy figures on a cheap poster! "Great Scott!" gasped Hi Martin, in sheer dismay, his gaze fixed on the approaching Centrals. "Where in the mischief did they get those uniforms?" demanded Tom Percival, of the North Grammars, his mouth agape. "Well, they have 'em, anyway," added Bill Rodgers.
Up to the fifth year, the age of the horse or ox can be easily determined by the eruption and replacement of the incisors. At one year of age the colt has a fully developed set of temporary incisors. The ruminant's incisors at this age all show wear. The two-year-old colt shows a well-worn set of incisor teeth, and the ruminant at this age has replaced the nippers or centrals.
Before batting he stalked over to where a lot of his schoolfellows were grouped and muttered: "Don't you fellows shoot any funny remarks in this inning. Keep quiet." "Huh!" shot out one of the boys. "What's the matter with you, Ted?" "No matter. But I don't want any funny line of talk steered over to the Centrals to-day." "Seems to me you've changed a lot, Ted," grinned one of his classmates.
And the loss of machinery in the centrals, which is worth in single instances hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in the aggregate many millions, cannot be replaced by men, who, even when their machinery was intact, were on the brink of ruin.
Many of the planters in order to save their fields and centrals from destruction, are unquestionably aiding the insurgents in secret, and though they shout "Viva Espana" in the cities, they pay out cartridges and money at the back door of their plantations. It was because Weyler suspected that they were playing this double game that he issued secret orders that there should be no more grinding.
Wolves have no language in the sense that man has; their vocabulary is probably limited to a dozen howls, barks, and grunts expressing the simplest emotions; but they have several other modes of conveying ideas, and one very special method of spreading information the Wolf-telephone. Scattered over their range are a number of recognized "centrals."
I won't have to spend the afternoon doing it now and, besides, I feel so triumphant. I got through this time without forgetting to get a nickel first. I usually go into one of those wooden overcoats and go through all the agonies of elbowing my way through half a dozen centrals into some one's ear several miles away, and then discover that I haven't anything but a half dollar.
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