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[Illustration: SAFE AT HOME]




  THOSE SMITH BOYS
  ON THE DIAMOND

  OR

  NIP AND TUCK FOR VICTORY

  BY

  HOWARD R. GARIS

  _Author of
  Uncle Wiggily and Alice in Wonderland, Uncle Wiggily
  Longears, Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose,
  Uncle Wiggily’s Arabian Nights_

  [Illustration]

  MADE IN U. S. A.

  M·A·DONOHUE·&·COMPANY
  CHICAGO      NEW YORK




  Made in U. S. A.


  COPYRIGHT, 1912 BY
  R. F. FENNO & COMPANY
  _Those Smith Boys on the Diamond_




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                               PAGE

        I  A CLOSE GAME                    9

       II  A FIRE DEPARTMENT RUN          19

      III  A LEAKY BOAT                   30

       IV  A GREAT HOME RUN               39

        V  OFF FOR WESTFIELD              50

       VI  A LIVELY HAZING                58

      VII  MOVING THE SENIOR STONE        69

     VIII  ORGANIZING THE NINE            77

       IX  BILL IS HIT                    84

        X  THE DOCTOR’S VERDICT           91

       XI  MEETING AN OLD FRIEND          96

      XII  PROFESSOR CLATTER’S PLAN      105

     XIII  BILL IS HIMSELF AGAIN         113

      XIV  THE TRY-OUT                   125

       XV  THE CONSPIRATORS              131

      XVI