V
The All-Stars met in Jonesie’s room that evening and disbanded. But first Jonesie addressed them from the study table most eloquently.
“As long,” declared Jonesie magnificently, “as the annals of Randall’s School survive the fame and glory of the All-Stars will—er—illuminate the pages of history! We have to-day performed a deathless, imperishable deed. Summoned from—er—the humble walks of life, like the Minute Men of old or What’s-his-name from the plow, we sprang into the breach and—er—battled nobly and valiantly. Victory was ours! For two hard-fought innings we held the School Team at bay and finally triumphed by valor and science!”
Young Nash snickered. Jonesie shot a reproving glance at him and went on.
“Handicapped by ignorance, by lack of practice, by youthfulness and want of experience,we stood shoulder to shoulder upon the trampled field and——”
“Joe Tyson says we didn’t win,” interrupted Tubby. “Says the game didn’t go four and a half innings.”
“Who cares what he says? Who cares what any of them say? They refused to continue. They forfeited the game. The umpire said so. We won a noble victory with the aid of courage, science and——”
“Onions,” murmured Pinky.
THE END
Transcriber’s Notes:Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate, so the page number of the illustration may not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.Printer’s, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate, so the page number of the illustration may not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.
Printer’s, punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.