Bob shook his head. "I made up my mind not to, before I came home; but if I hadn't, I'd have decided that way to-day."
"You would? Why? Aren't we doing good work?"
"Yes, but I wouldn't let any one boss me the way you let Mason boss you."
My jaw dropped. "Why, for goodness' sake," I said, "what do you suppose we let him tell us what to do, for?"
"Well, I wouldn't let any one tell me, no matter what it was for. I want freedom! I don't give any one the right to tell me what to do,—and you all obey just as meekly as little lambs."
"And why shouldn't we? Doesn't he know a thousand times as much about base-ball as all of the rest of us put together? Hasn't he had the practice, and the experience? That's what we wanted him to help us for,—so he could advise us and tell us the best way to get results. We used to make errors right and left, because we couldn't see far enough ahead in the game;—but he's got us to thinking quick and thinking right. Even if we can't always see at a glance why we should do as he says,—when we've
