The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-09
AT THE BALL GAME.
WiggIeswOrth Takes His Wife and Boy 60
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"Oh, mammal screamed Willie Wiggles
WORTH running into the house. "Come
quicxl Here's pa with horsel'
MIR. Wigglesworth was steering a long
bony animal to the sidewalk an operation
not unmixed with difficulty, for the horse
had his own views of how a sidewalk
ought to be steered up to, and they appar
emily did not coincide with those of Mr..
Wigglesworth.
"Why, where are you going, ElleryP'
called Mrs. Wigglesworth from the We
randa.
whats that got to--whoal you old
fool!-got to do with it?'' returned Mr..
Wigglesworth, red in the face with his eff
forts at the reins. "Get on your things
and prance out here, can't you fore yank
the jaw off this miserable beast?'
"Shall 1 take WiIlie?' asked Mrs. Wig
ellsworth, running down the walk with
her bonnet on one side.
''Take himP'' answered her husband
tartly. "Course you'll take him.
With WilIie's knees doubled up against
the dasher Mr.. Wigglesworth finally shook
out the reins and got his picnic into mo-
ton. AS they logged on he pulled the
brindle horse out of the gutters and curbed
as we'll as he could that eccentric animals
prediction for involving their carriage
wheels with telegraph poles and rival We
hicIes. Willie Wigglesworth's eyes fairly
goggled from his head and a shrek of
wonder rose to his lips as they presently
skirted a tall board Enclosure and turned
in at the carriage entrance to the baseball
grounds.
"Why," cried Mrs. wigglesworth in
surprise, "what place is this?"
'What place is this?" repeated her hus-
hor aI,a1 rrrOrUdC o. o11rco hot
you think it was-United States patent Of
fee? Seemed to you to be an asylum for
parentless orphans likely"
81 know what it is, pai'' said Willie
Wigglesworth gleefully.
"You shut your head, - growled his IA
ther, being at that instant called upon to
twist the neck of the brindle horse in order
to avoid running over the legs of some
strangers, whereupon the horse gave a
kittenish skip and jamned fat man
against the fence
"What you do that for?'' yelled the fat
man, aiming blow at Mr.. Wigglesworth
with his cane. Don't they know any bet
ter than to let you out when there's a
| Crowd?"
"A policeman pulled the fat man away
and then led the brindle horse to posi-
| ton back of the crowd. The game was
already under way.
"Therer' said Mr.. Wiggleswortb, stand
| ing up and looking about, ''this is some
thing like it. Our club is in, [ believe"
I'm what?" anxiously queried Mrs Wig
| ellsworth gazing toward the grand stand.
| s'Oh, yes'' she added, 81 see-in that
wire cage. What are they in there for, FL
lery?'
|'That's the stuff!'' shouted Mr. Wig
| ellsworth, as a robust player in stuffed
pantaloons struck the ball terrific blow.
'tThat's good for three bags"
''Three bags of what?'' asked Mrs. Wig
| ellsworth, but the boy with peanuts passed
| at that moment, and she concluded it
must relate to the traffic he was carrying
| on.
Presently the side went out, and the club
with red stockings came to bat.
| ''That's thedandy pitcher for you" Mr..
Wigglesworth commented. "He's got his
curves right today
"What are his curves?" Mrs. Wiggles-
worth wanted to know, land what has he
| got them on, Ellery?"
But it needed only glance at the pitch
er, who had twisted himself into a knot pre-
liminary to shooting the ball toward the
| striker, to indicate where his curves were
| to be found. Never in her life, Mrs. Wig
| ellsworth said afterward to the minister S
| wife, had she seen man so full of them.
"Three baIlsF' declared the umpire.
''WOW?' howled Mr.. WIgglesworthi IN
chorus with the crowd. "What an umpire
The ball was square over the plate
'sEllery,' cried Mrs. Wigglesworth,
turning a wild gaze about the grounds and
the bowling, hustling crowd, II beg OF
you to explain to mel"
''What ails youg' snapped Mr.. Wiggles
worth, reluctantly turning from the con
temptation of brilliant alteration be
tween umpire and pitcher and numerous
other players on both sides. ''Why don'i
you watch the game and keep still, same a:
1 do? What you come out here for anyway
if you don't want to see?''
81 do want to see,' protested his wife
land I wax to know what it means.
heard that man with the wire trap on hi
head say there were three balls, and
can't for the life of me see but one, and
then you said there was something squHS