“You’ll see.”
“What’s the use to fool! Why don’t you take the regular ‘scrub’?”
“Because I have a better nine.”
Phil saw, with no little surprise, that Frank seemed to mean it.
“All right,” he said; “but we are not going to play six innings if this gets to be too much of a farce.”
“You may stop any time you like after the third inning,” smiled Frank.
“I know you are going to pitch against us,” said Phil; “but I don’t suppose you fancy you can play the whole game?”
“Not at all. You will find there are others.”
“Why don’t you take somebody in the place of Browning? He will drop dead getting after a ball.”
“Don’t worry about Browning. He’s all right.”