And Tom, laughing and blushing a little, put up an unsteady hand and discovered himself bare-headed. He had lost his cap! Not that it mattered, however. Nothing did matter. Amesville had won! THE END Transcriber’s Notes: --Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). --Except for the frontispiece, illustrations have been moved to follow the text that they illustrate, so the page number of the illustration may not match the page number in the Illustrations. --Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. --Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. --Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved. --The Author’s long dash style has been retained. --Page 294: the phrase "the sporting goods department were handed over" was duplicated on the third and fifth lines of the first paragraph. Unfortunately, the first instance _replaced_ a missing line of text. The paragraph was retained as printed. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Pitcher Pollock, by Christy Mathewson