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The Seawold boat, third in line, was half a mile behind the "Benson," and the Blackson boat, last of all, was two miles behind the Pollard boat's stern. But Jack and his friends had long ago ceased to feel any interest in the tail-enders. The race was to be over at five o'clock.
So Fred Ripely tagged on at the rear of the flight. "What is it, boys -a fire?" called Laura Bentley. A dozen girls had drawn in, pressing against the wall, to let this whirlwind of boys go by. "Tell you when we get back," Purcell called. "Time presses now." It took the leaders only about four minutes to reach Foster's Pond. Even Ripley and the other tail-enders were on hand about a minute later.
The two outfits were working promiscuously together, and I never knew who was the directing spirit in the work; but when the last two or three hundred of the tail-enders were leaving the first island for the second, and the men working in the rear started to swim the channel, amid the general hilarity I recognized a shout that was born of fear and terror.
He just took the ball in his hand, looked at it curiously for a moment, and fired it zing! like that, over the plate. I'd get that ball if I were you." "Isn't this a grand night?" murmured Rudie. "But they didn't have a hitter in the bunch," went on Ivy. "And not a man in the team could run. That's why they're tail-enders.
It was left for the tail-enders of the company to draw trousers that were six inches too long or too short, and blouses that either wouldn't reach around, and left yawning chasms in front, or were so large that they looked as if they were hung on bean-poles. Of course, Si couldn't be expected to do any more plodding farm work, now that he had "jined" the army.
"In two jumps you'll be in the tail-enders." I jerked my rod. The bait gracefully leaped over a swell shot along the surface, and ended with a splash. Again I jerked. As the bait rose into the air a huge angry splash burst just under it, and a broad-backed tuna lunged and turned clear over, his tail smacking the water. "Jump it!" yelled Dan.
He would be close-hauled again, but he would have earned a long breathing spell. As the tail-enders pushed by him he dropped in behind them to be engulfed in the rising clouds of dust and to do his own part of his own work. The wagon had gone ahead to the place appointed for to-night's camp.
What's the use? Every time they lick the good ones they fall down when they stack up against the tail-enders; it's rotten." "Cheer up, William, cheer up! The team will soon be home for another long series, and then they'll soar." "Yes," said William, gloomily, "to the bottom." "You seem to be downhearted; what's the matter?" "Mister Whimple lost a case to-day." "Well, lots of lawyers do that.
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