“Glad of the chance,” added Teddy.
“You had better stop at the glass-man’s, and ask him to come and put in a new window pane,” suggested Mrs. Tiptop, when she gave Tommy the money to get some groceries. “It won’t matter much to-night, as it isn’t cold, and I can paste a paper over the broken pane.”
“I’ll do it when I come back,” offered Tommy.
On the way to the store the boys talked excitedly of many things, from the accident that had happened on the moving wagon, and about which Tommy told them, to the breaking of the window.
“We want about four more fellows to make up the nine,” said Tommy. “Can’t you ask them to come around to-morrow? We can meet at my house. I guess I won’t go to school until the first of next week, and that will give me time to get this ball nine in shape.”
“Are you really going to have one?” asked Herbert.
“Certainly I am. All of us fellows here will be on it,” and Tommy looked at his four new chums.
“I guess Mortimer Manchester would join,” said Teddy.
“And Frank Bonder,” added Billie.
“George Pennington is a good player,” suggested Teddy, “and I guess Sammie Sandlass will join.”