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It didn't take the Anson family long to pick up what there was to be learned about the game of baseball aa it was played at that time. For my part, I made it my chief business by day, and it was the subject of my dreams when I slept. Father and Sturgis were almost as devoted to it as myself, but after a while the old gentleman "came back" long enough to realize that I was loading up my system with baseball to the exclusion of everything else. Although he had not absorbed enough book lore In his early day to fit him for a college professor, he vowed he wouldn't have his sons grow up to be a couple of numskulls, and he called us In one day to have a serious talk.
"I don't believe you boys can figure long division," he began as a cheerful Introduction. "I can," declared Sturgis promptly. "It"s no trick at all for me." "How about you, Adrian?" he continued, fixing me with a look that I knew meant business.
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