"Say, boys," exclaimed the professor, "what do you think of me?"
They regarded him with astonishment.
"What lunacy is this?" inquired Jack.
"Eh!" exclaimed Harvey, "what is it?"
"I give it up," replied Jack.
"Give it up?"
"Yes. Ask me an easier one."
"It must have escaped from a menagerie," said Harvey.
Mr. Mole regarded them with a lofty air.
"No doubt you think yourselves mighty funny," he remarked. "But you can run me, all you like. I am going to show these Yankees how an Englishman can play base-ball."