Transcriber's Note:
Printer, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected, except as noted below.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
Author's em-dash style has been preserved.
Changed "Rocky-ford" (p. 17) to "Rocky Ford", the Resolutes ball team's home town, for consistency with previous and subsequent books in the series.