“How is that?”

“They pay us just what they’d have to pay at a grocery store, and our potatoes are better.”

“Is that what your customers say?”

“Yes, sir; and we don’t have any small potatoes in the bottom of the barrel.”

“That’s something worth thinking of. My boy tells me you played a great game of ball to-day.”

“Yes, sir; the nine did well.”

“Walter says you made up the nine.”

“Did he tell you that? Walter himself began a triple play in the ninth inning that probably saved my record.”

“I don’t recall if he did.”