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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 526

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ome to the bat and three times in successionstrike only the ghost of the ball Reddy hadpitched. For nine innings the Charlestonians hadmarched up to the bat and then marched backagain, and only one of them had gone therounds and reached home; and he hadcrawled in at the back door and been… … STRIKE,— OIT ! come to the bat for the ninth time, was tolook uncomfortable, mop their brows, andmurmur: Whew! The Kingstonian center-fielder was the firstto the bat, and he struck out. Then Jumbo appeared and got his base onballs in his old pet way, and made ardent prep-arations to steal second ;…

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