“Yes,” replied Jonesie. “Gordon up! Proudfoot on deck! Billings in the hold!”
“What’s the inning, Jonesie?” inquired Joe Tyson from further along the bench.
“Last of the ninth,” answered Jonesie promptly.
“Get out! It’s the eighth!” declared Billy Carpenter. “Let’s see. Of course it’s the eighth, you idiot!”
“Is it?” murmured the non-official scorer. “All right. I just said ninth so as you fellows would get off easier.”
“Is that so?” said Billy unamiably. “Never you mind about us. Just you—— Here, what the dickens are those things over there in my column?”
“Those?” asked Jonesie innocently. “Oh, those are errors.”
“Errors! When did I make an error, you lunkhead?”
“I forget; third, I guess; maybe it was the fourth.”