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Updated: May 28, 2025
Further in, on the field, from the home-plate northward over the painstakingly levelled earth, harnessed horses sweated and tugged at the traces as scoop after scoop bit into the turf and came up filled with dirt to be emptied against the railroad tracks. "Flats," gasped Silvey, as they drew nearer.
To "have a heart" was like "heaping coals of fire" on people's heads, in minister's language, he supposed. And he wasn't so fond of that. But anyway he gave in. "All right," he agreed, "come 'n, where'll we play?" "Here," said Fatty, "this big rock'll be home-plate, and that one over there by the chestnut tree 'first. An' we'll choose up sides first choosin'!"
I put it to you over the home-plate that the idea of a cooperative commonwealth and an abolishment of competitive systems simply takes the rag off the bush and gives me hyperesthesia of the roopteetoop! The skookum house for yours!" I stopped a few yards away and took out my little notebook. "Oh, come ahead," said Rivington, somewhat nervously; "you don't want to listen to that."
And Fatty twisted himself up almost in knots, to make an extra fine curve, I suppose, for Marmaduke's benefit. Six times he did this before he let the ball go. It came towards the home-plate and Marmaduke, as fast as an arrow.
Well, what I mean to say is, it's all very well, and I see their point and all that sort of thing; but it takes two to make a marriage, and to date I haven't met a girl who didn't seem to think the contract was too big to be taken on. Looking back, it seems to me that I came nearer to getting over the home-plate with Ann Selby than with most of the others.
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