"Yah," said Dunnerwurst "Dot Ephraim Gallup he didid der pizness. Der game threw him avay."
"Gol dinged if yeou've gut anything to say!" rasped the Vermonter. "Yeou started all the trouble."
"Uf Frankie had let der pitcher's plate stay py me a vhile longer, it vould haf peen different. Der ball was chust gittin' control uf me ven he tookt me oudt."
Farnham Hall did not score in the first half of the ninth.
Diamond was the first batter up for the Merries, and he laced out a clean single.
"That's the stuff!" cried Frank. "Only three scores! We'll get 'em right here!"
Browning lifted a fly to left field, and Bemis scooped it. Diamond reached second. Gallup dropped a Texas Leaguer over the infield, and Buck Badger walked out With a bat on his shoulder.
"It peen up to you, Padger!" cried Dunnerwurst. "See vot you coot dood py der ball."
At this juncture Sparkfair issued his first pass, and Badger walked, filling the bases. Berlin Carson tried to drive in some runs, but popped up an infield fly and was out. Then Hans Dunnerwurst started forth.
"Oh, crackey!" groaned Ephraim Gallup. "It's all over naow!"