THE GIRL AND THE GAME
"But I don't want Aunt Sue."
She had reached the door. I groaned. And she came back, running.
"Ah, Billy, is it very bad?" She was at my side.
"Ann," I said, "I am awkward and overgrown"
She wouldn't look at me, but shook her head.
"And ignorant and have the big head"
She kept on shaking her head.
"And we would have won to-day if it hadn't been for me, and"
"Keep still," she said: "if they had all played as well as you, we should have won by ten points."
Ann said that, and she knows football. But I only asked:
"Who do you say would have won?"
"We—you—we." Then she turned her back on me and started for the door.
Again I groaned. She came back again.
"Oh, what is the matter, Billy?" She came nearer to me.
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