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"A precious lot I care whether Hi Martin ever has any clothes again," Greg retorted. "Oh, well, Greg, there's such a thing as a joke, and there's such a thing as carrying it too far. Hi Martin has had his dose of punishment already. We can afford to be decent and let up on him now. Hi, there, Ted!" Teall looked as though uncertain whether to run or to stand.
"I'll do my best to help you hold 'em down," promised the South Grammar catcher as he hurried to his place behind the plate. Dave Darrin, to his intense disgust, was struck out on three of the most crafty throws that Teall had on his list. Hazelton followed. Another player reached first on called balls, but the next Central boy struck a fair, short fly that landed in Ted's own hands.
"Well, which one of you is going to call?" inquired Tozier. "Teall," Dick again answered. "Oh, all right, then," nodded Ted. "I suppose, Prescott, you feel that, whichever way I call, I'd wish I'd taken the other way." The coin spun upward in the air, for Ben Tozier was a master of the art of flipping. "Tails," announced Teall. "It's heads this time," announced Umpire Tozier. "Captain Prescott?"
Hi slipped off by the side of his parent just in time for Ted to slow down and realize that he couldn't very well thrash Hi with the elder Martin looking on. Tom and Greg began to laugh. "Oh, cheer up, Ted," Dick smiled. "All's well that ends well, you know." "But this matter isn't ended yet," cried Ted Teall excitedly, shaking his fist at Hi Martin's receding back.
It was mighty kind of you, too." "Huh!" retorted Hi. "This is only one game lost, and by a hair's breadth. Wait until the end of the season, and see who carries the laurels." "Prescott, what do these letters mean on your jersey?" asked Ted Teall, halting and squinting at the golden yellow emblems. "C.G.?" smiled Dick. "That's for Central Grammar, of course.
"That was why Ted was so angry at the end." "Anyway," Tom insisted, "Teall isn't likely to bother us any more." "Either he'll quit on the funny talk," agreed Prescott, "or else he'll go to the other extreme and be more tantalizing than ever." It would greatly have interested these Central Grammar boys had they known that the subject of their conversation was even then listening to them.
"Potassium chlorate is extremely 'rich' in oxygen, and it is held very loosely in combination. When a piece of the chlorate is struck a hard blow it sets the oxygen free, and the gas expands so rapidly that the explosion follows." On the outskirts of the little crowd stood a new-comer, Ted Teall, who was drinking in every word that the druggist uttered.
"It's about time you brought 'em back," snapped Hi, making a dive for his belongings. "I had a good mind not to do it at all," retorted Teall hotly. "You'd have found yourself in hot water if you hadn't done it," Hi declared testily, as, having drawn on his underclothing, he seated himself to lace up his shoes. Then he rose and reached for his trousers.
Until after dark," Ted rejoined. "Then why didn't you find it?" "Because I didn't happen to see it -that was the only reason," Teall retorted. "There may have been another reason," observed Hi Martin dryly. "Do you mean to say that I tried to steal it?" flared Ted, now ready to fight. "How do I know?" Hi asked. "If I thought you meant that "
The wise thing will be for me to take these duds to Hi before he catches cold." So Ted gathered up the articles of apparel and with them started back into the woods. "Hi, Hi!" he called, as be neared the thicket. "Here," came an angry voice. "Here's your old duds," growled Teall, as he reached the thicket that concealed young Martin, and threw the things on the ground.
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