“What’s the score?”
“Fourteen to twelve.”
“Betty’s serve.”
The Pennacooks, nerved to greater effort by their higher score and the increasing score of the Kennebecs made the fifteenth point and won the game. Two games out of three they had thus won, and the Kennebecs generously gave the first cheer for the winning team.
“No hurry, girls,” said Lilian, dropping down in the shade. A red-eyed vireo in the bushes had not stopped rooting for both sides during the game, and an olive-sided flycatcher had come out to sit on a wire by one of the tennis courts and inquire which side beat. So Hilary interpreted their remarks, as she pointed them out to the girls.
Hilary, June, Eloise, Lilian and Cathalina were among the defeated Kennebecs, while Isabel, Nora, Betty and Frances were of the victorious Pennacooks. Helen and Marion played with the Ossipees, who were at present playing baseball down on what might be called Merrymeeting Green, near the water front.
“The baseball games aren’t over yet,” Lilian continued, “and besides they’ll have to rest.” The girls stretched out or curled up where tall bushes and some trees offered shade.
“Whom do we play in basketball?”
“The Ossipees.”
“Well, we must beat them,” declared Hilary. “I’ll simply pass away if we can’t.”