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 vittles like these hyuh slick, slippery ones the gals wear nowadays."

"What you fellows keep ha-ha-ing about!" demanded Legs, glaring on his two chums, who were indulging in horselaughs. "She might have been on a team. Didn't you see that Ladies' aggregation that came down home last year, with men along to slide bases for 'em? I never did see so many balls muffed nor as many fouls cracked nor—nor—Shut up, will you?"

The last command was evidently not intended for their host, who chuckled once more and continued: "She was this sort of baseball player, lads: she knocked me out and clean over the fence when I set down to talk sweet to her. She didn't say so, but I knowed it war my legs that done it. But time brings changes, lads; time brings almighty changes. She kept on a-knockin' and a-knockin' other felluhs out because one's eyes didn't set right and she didn't like another lad's job. She was so notional and pernickety, fust thing she knowed she was a ole maid landed high and dry in No Man's Land, she was.

"I reckon it war twenty year since I done lost sight of her when hyuh come a letter from