He’s a red hot huckleberry——
Drink it down! drink it down! down! down!”
CHAPTER XV.
A CHALLENGE.
Dick hugged the mysterious ball-player when the latter was lowered to the ground. The pitcher laughed and asked:
“Is this better than the fun you used to have, Dick?”
“It is better than anything!” palpitated the lad. “It’s perfectly glorious.”
Then up in the grand stand a man rose and cried:
“Minneapolis, you have been taken in to-day! Take a tumble to the trick! That jay is no jay at all! He’s simply made up like a jay! He’s some king-pin off the National League rung in on you!”