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Crowfoot appealed to Kilgore, but the umpire had not seen Scrogg's trick and refused to penalize the second team on that account. Sparkfair was given a hand as he walked out to the plate. Once more Dale thought of Dick Merriwell's feat on his first appearance at Fardale. The situation was nearly the same.
"I shouldn't mind about the soot myself," said the baronet, with that dispassionateness which belongs to the potential mood. "Nothing is more healthy. And if one's business lay there, Gadsmere would be a paradise. It makes quite a feature in Scrogg's history of the county, with the little tower and the fine piece of water the prettiest print in the book."
"The way they slam me is simply awful! I did think I could pitch a little, but I'm afraid I was deceived." He knew Scrogg's weakness, however, and, forced Sim to put up an easy infield fly, which Hollis handled. Shackleton batted one into right field, and Carson attempted to reach home on it. Sleepy Jake Lander was very wide awake, and he made a line throw to the plate.
He was unduly dignified and stately, but the attorney appeared decidedly groggy. The latter's ideas clashed against one another like pebbles in a child's rattle, and, if the round table may be supposed to represent the earth, as the ancient geographers imagined it, Scrogg's face was surely the glowing moon shining upon it. Readily had the attorney lent himself to the new order of procedure.
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