| [CHAPTER I] | PAGE |
| Two Apprentices | [1] |
| [CHAPTER II] | |
| Hail to the Pitcher | [11] |
| [CHAPTER III] | |
| Neighborly Attentions | [23] |
| [CHAPTER IV] | |
| Payner the Marplot | [35] |
| [CHAPTER V] | |
| The Favors of Fortune | [43] |
| [CHAPTER VI] | |
| The Third String | [55] |
| [CHAPTER VII] | |
| Facilis Descensus | [66] |
| [CHAPTER VIII] | |
| The First Plague | [74] |
| [CHAPTER IX] | |
| A New Interest | [86] |
| [CHAPTER X] | |
| Mr. Carle wants to Know | [100] |
| [CHAPTER XI] | |
| The Relay Race | [112] |
| [CHAPTER XII] | |
| An Interrupted Evening | [122] |
| [CHAPTER XIII] | |
| A Waning Star | [136] |
| [CHAPTER XIV] | |
| A Captain's Troubles | [146] |
| [CHAPTER XV] | |
| Outdoors at Last | [155] |
| [CHAPTER XVI] | |
| Theories and Plans | [165] |
| [CHAPTER XVII] | |
| A Set-back for O'Connell | [175] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] | |
| Disappointments | [188] |
| [CHAPTER XIX] | |
| A Misfit Battery | [200] |
| [CHAPTER XX] | |
| A Sub-Seatonian | [212] |
| [CHAPTER XXI] | |
| Playing Indians | [224] |
| [CHAPTER XXII] | |
| A Fair Chance | [237] |
| [CHAPTER XXIII] | |
| A Tie Game | [252] |
| [CHAPTER XXIV] | |
| Making Ready | [268] |
| [CHAPTER XXV] | |
| As Wally saw It | [276] |
| [CHAPTER XXVI] | |
| Recognition | [295] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
- [Coy was nailed as he scrambled back to the base—and the game was won (p.293)] Frontispiece
- [School Dormitories]
- [A Corner of the yard]
- ["There's the rat, sir," said Duncan]
- [The Chapel Stairs]
- [The Principal's House]
- [He felt the bonds that held him to the tree loosen]
- [He leaped, and clutched the ball hardly a foot from the ground]
WITH MASK AND MITT
TWO APPRENTICES
If, for the beginning of this story, the reader finds himself carried back to the middle of "In the Line," let him not suspect a twice-told tale. The current of school life runs swiftly through its short channel. The present soon becomes the past, the past is soon forgotten. While the hero of to-day enjoys the sunshine of popularity, fondly imagining himself the flower and perfection of schoolboy development, the hero of the future, as yet unrecognized, is acquiring strength and determination for new records and greater triumphs. The scene shifts rapidly; new stories are ever beginning while the old ones are still unfinished.