Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-07-09
A MOCK EPIC.

The reader win be amused in spite of himself at the
ingenious quaintness and simplicity of the following fc
ton SO ridiculous and at the time so well told:
From The Knieher5ocker Magazine
1t must have been sheer envy the part of Mr. c.
Conklin Neppins that excluded the following stirring
'pome from the columns of ssThe Quog Ltery Gem0
We take an early occasion to do justice the talents Of
the author r. NJ Pepper, Esq, who writes that he
has chose the ydrauc measure because next hydra
meters, he considers it the most efectooal ~
!" sUBJEcK: COLLISION BETWEEN A ALEGAIrER AND A
wATER-sNAIK: TRIUMPH OF THE wATER-sEAIK DErH
OF THE ALEGAITER =:
q There is an Hand on river lying
Which runs into Gautimay, warm country
Lying near the Tropicks covered with sand;
Hear and their symptum of Wilow
Hanging of its umberagous Inns branches
Over the clear streme meandering far below.
This was the Home of the silent Aegaiter
When not in his other element confne'd:
Hear he wood set upon his egs sleep
With ey obseryant of his and other passing
Objecks: while it kept going on so
Fereles OF danger was the hapy Aegaiter
But las in an evil our he was fourced to
wake that dreme Of Bills was two sweet for him.
morning the son arose with unusooal splender,
Witch also did Aegaiter coming from the water
His scails afnging of the rails of the son back
To the fountain-head which tina originly sprung. t
But having had nothing to eat for some time, he
Was SLEEPY aad gap'd, in q short time, widely
Unloading soon welth of per-whte teth,
The rails OF the son shet his sinister ey
because OF there mutooal splender and warmth.
The Evil Our (which sed) was now come;
Evidently good chaus for a water Snak
Ofthe large Specie, which soon appeared
Into the horison near the bank where repose'd
Calmly in slepe the Alegaiter before spoken Of.
About W foot was his Length mot the gater
And he was aperiently well proportional Snaik.
when he was all ashore he gared upon
The iland with APPROVAL, butwas soon
Astonlshed with the view lost wonder from Watsl
FOR jest then he began for to the Aegaiter.)
Beng material Enemy of hs'n, he worked hisself
Into fury, also n nj position.
Before the Alegaiter well could ope
lis eys lin other words, prceve his danger)
The Snaik had envelloped his body just 10
Times with foalds volooinus and vast from Miltonl
And had tore off several Seals in the confusion,
BESIDES squesng him awfully onto his stomic.
: ust then, by a fortunate turn in his Affairs,
lie ceazed into his mouth the careles tale
OF the unreaecting water-Snaik! Groan desperate
lie, finding that his tale was fast squesed
Terrible, while they roaled all over the Hand.
1t a wel-conduckted Affair: no noise
Disturbed the harmony of the Seen ecsept
0nct when Willow was SNAPPED into by the roaling
Each Of the combatence hadn't a mint for holernp
SO the con6ick materially TREMENDOUS
But soon by CRATE fource the tale bit complete
Ly Of: but the eggzertion too much
For his delicate CONSTRUCTION he felt compression
Onto his chest, and generally his body:
When he ecspres'd his brething, it with crate
Difficulty that he felt inspir'd again onct more
or coarse this State must suffer a reyolootion
So the Aegaiter give but vel and egspire'd
The water-Snak realed hisself off, & suryay'd
For say 10 mnits the condition Of
Ills 70: then wondering what made his tale hurt
He sloly went off for to cooln