Chapter I: Preface
The author has but a word to say in offering "With Mask and Mitt" to his boy readers. The book follows "In the Line" and precedes "The Great Year" in the sequence of the series. While it repeats no incidents of previous books and covers wholly new ground in athletics, it will be found not dissimilar to its predecessors in its general spirit and character. A good juvenile must be one approved by the parent, enjoyed by the boy, and read with profit by both. It should, of course, interest and amuse; it should also help the parent to understand the impulses and the mental attitude of the boy, and the boy to accept the ideals of the parent. If "With Mask and Mitt" does not meet these requirements, it has at least been written with a full knowledge of their importance.
Thanks must again be expressed to Dr. E.H. Nichols of Boston for cordially rendered assistance in the technicalities and theory of the game of which he is an unquestioned master.
ALBERTUS T. DUDLEY.
Boston, July, 1906.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGE
Two Apprentices 1
CHAPTER II
Hail to the Pitcher 11
CHAPTER III
Neighborly Attentions 23
CHAPTER IV
Payner the Marplot 35
CHAPTER V
The Favors of Fortune 43
CHAPTER VI
The Third String 55
CHAPTER VII
Facilis Descensus 66
CHAPTER VIII
The First Plague 74
CHAPTER IX
A New Interest 86
CHAPTER X
Mr. Carle wants to Know 100
CHAPTER XI
The Relay Race 112
CHAPTER XII
An Interrupted Evening 122
CHAPTER XIII
A Waning Star 136
CHAPTER XIV
A Captain's Troubles 146
CHAPTER XV
Outdoors at Last 155
CHAPTER XVI
Theories and Plans 165
CHAPTER XVII
A Set-back for O'Connell 175
CHAPTER XVIII
Disappointments 188
CHAPTER XIX
A Misfit Battery 200
CHAPTER XX
A Sub-Seatonian 212
CHAPTER XXI
Playing Indians 224
CHAPTER XXII
A Fair Chance 237
CHAPTER XXIII
A Tie Game 252
CHAPTER XXIV
Making Ready 268
CHAPTER XXV
As Wally saw It 276
CHAPTER XXVI
Recognition 295
ILLUSTRATIONS
Coy was nailed as he scrambled back to the base--and
the game was won (p. 293) _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
School Dormitories 22
A Corner of the Yard 54
"There's the rat, sir," said Duncan 126
The Chapel Stairs 140
The Principal's House 150
He felt the bonds that held him to the tree loosen 230
He leaped, and clutched the ball hardly a foot from
the ground 250
WITH MASK AND MITT
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