"Ha--that's the question! Over on
Greylock the farmers'sons call him Shooting
Star', alias 'Starry'," with a boyish
laugh, "because when they were awf'ly
hard up for a player in the last ball game
of the series against Willard College, having
lost their second baseman and substitute
too, by gracious! he breezed along, an' the
captain, hearing he had played on a college
team, roped him in ... an'--an', what
do you know, but he won the game for
that mountain team with a home run!
A home run over the left field fence!
Bully!"

"But, surely, they know his--real--name!"
Pem's aloof absorption in that
fell like fog-drip even upon the glow from
that left field fence.

"Maybe they do--and maybe they
don't! He refused it to the fans. And
when the Greylock coach cornered him he
palmed it off as Selkirk. But my cousin
who's pitcher on the team says in his
opinion that was just 'throwing a tub to a
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