“Curves both ways? What do you mean?”

“In an’ aout.”

“An in and out? On one pitch?”

“Yep.”

“Say!”

“What?”

“What are you trying to do—string me?”

“Not a gol-darn bit,” answered the countryman, as he took a seat on the players’ bench. “I kin do it.”

“Why, that’s the double-shoot!”

“That’s jest what it is.”