"This is like chicking perries--I mean picking cherries.

All I have to do is to reach out and take what I want." "If the boys will capture the game I'll be perfectly satisfied to lose," declared Harris, who did not tell the truth, however, for he was chagrined, although he showed not a sign of it.
"How can we lose?
how can we lose ?" chuckled Harry.

"Things are coming our way, as the country editor said when he was rotten-egged by the mob." It really seemed that Yale was out for the game at last, for they kept up their work at the bat, although Peck replaced Coulter in the box for Harvard.
Merriwell had his turn with the first batter up.

One man was out, and there was a man on second.

Coulter had warned Peck against giving Merriwell an outcurve.