Bart smiled grimly and nodded for another. Frank used exactly the same sort of a curve, and again Dorrity went after it and failed to connect.
“Why, it’s easy! it’s easy!” said Bart.
“A perfect snap,” assured Carson.
“Couldn’t hit one of them in fourteen million years,” said Ready.
“He’ll think he’s got the jam-jims—I mean the jim-jams,” came from Rattleton.
“Please let him hit it,” urged Browning. “I want another put-out in this inning. He can’t hit it out of the diamond.”
But Merry did not let up in the least. The very next one was a speed ball, but Frank caused the curves to reverse the other way, and Dorrity let it pass.
“Batter is out!” announced the umpire.
Dorrity threw down his bat and started into the diamond, yelling: