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..HOUSEBOAT ON PAI Which Is Concemed With the Furthq Happened in the Afternoor DRAMTIS PERSONAE. Cicero, a Roman Senator. Hannibal Barca. Daniel. Qtteen Elizabeth. Shadrach Abednego The Hebrew Children Mesach t Charon, an Ancient Shade. Hercules. Peter the Hermit. AL. Walla,e. The Old Greek Traveler. George Topshe. "Crobar." Ptolemy. Adam. PART II. Cicero was feeling in peculiarly high spirits as he sat astride a bunker with his toga folded about him in im niaculate creases, and superciliously 6watched Hannibal drive 300 yards to Vward "Bloody Angle." 8 "Pretty-good lick," quoth the Roman, r. "for a Carthaginian, that is," lie added c4 hastily, lest his remark might be con strued as a compliment to the big Phoenecian, for whom he had never _ possessed any great love since the time j Hannibal had won $1.87 from him on St ie Shade-faculty baseball game of the preceding spring. Just now his disgust was supplemented when Han nibal, using an antedeluvian cleek made of a mammoth tusk borrowed from Adam, slued the ball neatly an other r5o yards or so, and landed it on the green about two inches from the hole. Cicero rummaged through his toga and. produced a quart of Black Label. He squinted in the direction of Rutledge to see if Mademoiselle was looking, and then took a man's-size drink,-and Cicero was a big man. "Ahi-h," he soliloquized, contented ly, "who said. prohibition? Lemme hit him I" Al. Wallace's huge form suddenly loomed to the right of the new build ing. "Hi, there, Cicero," lie bellowed in stentorian tones. "Comin' to the ball game? Peter the Hermit says for all you fellows to hurry up and hump yourselves. It's gettin' late and Crobar has started warming up." "The h- you say," ejaculated his hearer. "Come on, Hannibal, you and Adam. Pete must be kinda grouchy this evenin'." "I don't giye a fig leaf about the games" grumbled Adam, who had just made the fourth hole in 17, but I guess we oughtenter, keep Pete waithzV on us," in which lofty sentiment, Hannibal having unanimously concurred, the trio caught up with Al. and they de parted in a body for Davis' Field. On entering the gate, the first per son they beheld was Ptolemy holding forth to a crowvd of interested auditors. and expitiating audibly, volubly upon what an unfortunate thing it would be for everybody in general, and the old Greek traveler in particular, if the earth were, to come into collision with Mars. "Now. whats er fhact ?" lie was THE CONGAREE T II. x Adventures of the Shades, and What They Spent on the Campus. saying, emphasizing his remark by a fearful gesture with the crook of his little finger. "Whatt is er fhact? If the nodes of the moon were to pass through the shadow of the apsides of the perigee of the lunar hypoteneuse of Mercury, what would be a fhact?" He paused for a reply, wiping his chin on a primeval sack of Bull Dur ham. "I am a part of all that I have met," observed the Old Greek traveler oracularly and relevantly. This edify ing discussion was rudely interrupted by Umpire Hercules, who was an nouncing the batteries for the game. "For the Anheuser's, Bush will pitch, Wheeler will catch; for the Budweiser's, 'Crobar' will pitch, Hem ingway will catch." "Batter up I" Captain Crobar stepped to the plate, a fierce scowl of determination upon his lineaments. He wielded a colossal bludgeon loaned to him by the Old Greek Traveller, who had batted .315 with it in the Pan-Helenic League some thousands of years previously. The ball came with stupendous speed, a swift-breaking out-curve. Crobar swung savagely at it to no avail. The next was a slow drop-ball that the batter missed two feet. How ever, Crobar certainly did smite the sphere when it slanted straight across the third time. It looked like one of Mr. Mac's golf balls when the big Irishman catches it just right for a 200-yard drive, and it didn't stop bouncing this side of the Union Sta tion. Al. Wallace was up next, and hit a home run to the fence. Puffing like a porpoise, he managed to get to second base, to the great surprise of the spectators who weren't expecting Al. to show such agility on the bases. Here Bush was taken from the box, and another pitcher who bore a strong resemblance to Peterkin substituted. The game rocked along merrily for seven innings, at the end of which the Budwelsers had their opponents blanked 23 to 0. Pete Phillips went in to pitch, as the game had been won, and the Shades adjourned to the "Bone Yard." Above the door of this den was hung the mystical legend! "Abandon ye all soap who enter here." "Good," said Crobar. "I ought to be eligible," so the wvhole gang wvent in. The room was crowded. Blue wreaths of tobacco smoke partially ob scured the figures of both dceers and onlookers, and above the incessant rat tling of the "bones," wvas heard frag mentary scraps of conversation, sonme thing lilte this: "Got a cigareete ?" "Nawv, you ?" "Get big bones." "Let's swveeten it." "Aw, don't be a tight-wad." "Roll the bones, crook I" "Hal, man, I gotter git up me doup bottle." "I swzear to Gawd, I Aiin' roll' nuttin' nmo'on two nin' all day long," etc., etc. In ten minutes, the senne wa cnm pletely changed. The Shades took pos session of the table, and the "pikers" gladly yielded them their places, watching in wonder Daniel, Queen Elizabeth, the Hebrew Children, Cicero, Peter the Hermit, Adam, and the Old Greek Traveller as they per spired over the ramifications of the five ivory cubes at xo.oo dollars a shot. Presently, Cicero, producing a roll of bills that would have strangled a bul lock, raised the limit to $roo.oo, and the perspiration became sweat. At 8 o'clock Adam had "sewed up the game." "Let's pike up to the Preliminary," suggested Crobar, "John Sheppard is going to speak, and I think there will be a few other extemporaneous re marks. Bound to be if Grease Graydon breaks out of the chicken-house where they locked.him last night to keep him from making a voluntary oration." "Now, that's a happy thought," said Jim Hammond, who had just stag gered in from the club, and so they proceeded to adopt it. They found comfortable seats in the rear of the-chapel, behind Red Russell and Mademoiselle, and although the Old Greek Traveller complained sev eral times of the odor of whiskey, no body could imagine from whence it emanated. A somnolent usher woke up, gave each of the Shades a pro gram, and relapsed into slumber again. (Continued In next issue.) Carolina Te 1WtA 04 S. B. Mc 1318 MA COLUlv Read CIp #f . events. CLNews of all the - unbiased editorials. (1A fir * To yearly subscribers the C . 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