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Rodney's most effective ball was his drop, but Eliot, knowing it would be poor judgment if the pitcher should use that particular ball too often, called for it only in emergencies. The emergency rose when, with only one man out, Sanger singled and stole second, Nelson dropping Roger's throw.
"You turned him out capitally. But," he added, an expression of dismay stealing over his face, "what shall we do?" "We must try to obtain a loan," said Mrs. Frost, "I will go and see Mr. Sanger, while you go to Mr. Perry. Possibly they may help us. There is no time to be lost." An hour afterward Frank and his mother returned, both disappointed. Mr. Sanger and Mr.
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"This," he said, waving his pipe at the increasing crowd, "is nothing. You should have see them at Beaconsfield and High Wycombe. They began by thinking I was Lord John Sanger, and when they were satisfied that I wasn't, they made sure I was a Cheap Jack with gold watches for a shilling each." "How does it go, Kink?" Robert asked. "It goes all right," said Kink, "but the crockery wants muffling.
It was the custom at Sanger to honour the dead by bringing back from the funeral the name-plate and framing it on a black background with some supposed appropriate scripture text.
As a result, he was forced to reach for the ball with his bare right hand, and he dropped it. The home crowd was on its feet now, shouting wildly as the umpire's downward gesture with both hands proclaimed the daring Texan safe at third. Copley snarled at Pratt, and Sanger plainly showed that the performance of Grant had put him on the anxious seat.
Willie Haslam, the clerk at the Company's Post, had learned a trick or two at cards in the east, and imagined that he could, as he said himself, "roast the cock o' the roost" meaning Pierre. He had had the misfortune to prefer Kitty to the other girls at Guidon Hill though Nellie Sanger would have been as much to him, if Kitty had been easier to win.
I can talk to the pitcher if I choose, and I've got a right to have a little conversation with myself." "Don't pay any attention to him, Springer," warned Roger; "that's his trick." Phil also missed the first ball delivered by Sanger. "This fellow thinks he can pitch," cried Copley. "He's had a dream." "There he goes, Mr. Umpire," cried Roger. "He's talking to the batter again."
He was then and there ordered to abstain forever from the woods. Of course, he did not. He merely became more cautious about it all, and enjoyed his shanty with the added zest of secret sin. Biddy's Contribution An Irish-Canadian servant girl from Sanger now became a member of their household. Her grandmother was an herb-doctor in great repute.
Having seen that look of rage in the Texan's eyes, Newt Copley was not at all disposed to repeat the trick with him. Apparently Grant's nerves had been somewhat unstrung, for when the game was again resumed he missed one of Sanger's shoots by something like a foot, and the second strike was called by the umpire. Then Rod smiled; it was barely a faint flicker, but Sanger saw it and wondered.
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