The Portland daily press., 1894-02-23

ana WIS will serve them as we did those
wretchss but now He was talking like
a freshman as yet unacquainted with our
guardians of the peace, while his ideas
were altogether too sanguinary for mod
ern civilization.
Hastily packing, we made our way un-
der cover of darkness to Pir@us, where we
were fortunate in finding steamer ready
to sail early in the afternoon, and before
sunset we had left Mount Athos low on
the horizon, and / breathed naturally once
more.
To keep Polycrates' marbelized condi
tion secret was most difficult People
would come close to him, and it was only
by constantly intefposing myself that en-
counters which might have raised ques-
ton were avoided. One Englishman in
deed did run against Poly's shoulder in
passing. Rather solid shoulder, that, )"
he said. "Felt hard as marble"
mot marble, sir,'' answered hastily
"plaster of paris-met with an accident.
Doctor did him up in plaster"
We took another turn on deck, when
Poly ran into the same man again.
"Jove, has he hurt both shoulders?" he
asked.
Eyes" said 1, for 1 saw I was in for it.
"Both shoulders very badly hurt, hardly
has the use of his arms at all.
This elaboration was untimely, for Poly
just then picked up hatchway cover
weighing couple of hundred pounds and
carried it to the other side of the deck.
The Englishman looked at Poly, then at
me, said nothing and walked away. am
afraid he thought was lying. He left us
royt dav Malta and T fa1t oaSiar
occupied the balance of the voyage
posting Polycrates upon nineteenth cen
fury matters. He grasped new ideas fairly
well, but his questions were annoying at
times when he touched on our great sys-
tenn of government. Such was his childish
innocence that he could not comprehend
how United States senator could buy
seat in the most dignified body in the
world and still remain honest. Iexplained
it fully, but he only smiled. The idea Of
importing the Irish to run our ward poll
tics seemed odd to him. This also ex-
planned. but apparently not to his satisfac
ton. He was misled by his untutored 300
B. C. mind into believing that our officials
represented their constituents, and conse-
quently thought the constituents must be
a horde of thieves. made it clear to him
at last that our satisfaction was derived
from being robbed by those of our own
political faith. When the other fellows
robbed us, they were rascals.
We reached New York by the latter part
of Septem Der. and / at once had Polycrates
entered as a special student. had posted
him upon how to cut lectures, and knew
1 could get him through his first term.
The football team began practice as soon
as the fall term commenced, and Poly was
an interested spectator. He did not at first
see all the beauties of the game and
thought we could scrap just as well with
out the ball as with it. Why we did not
kick the ball also puzzled him, until ex-
planned that it was more to the point to
disable the man. When the play finally
became clear to him, gave him some
practice one afternoon, and his joy was
complete. / coached him carefully, and
by Thanksgiving day was satisfied that
Harvard was ours.
The great day came at last and with it
a crowd which filed the grounds to over
flowing When we appeared, yell of de-
light went up from the blue side, but
changed at once into roar of rage: "Look
at him! Look-he's smoking!"
I turned and saw Polycrates pulling
calmly on big cigar and smiling cheer
fully at the crowd. I made him throw it
away, and the roar subsidized into muir
muir when the play began.
His instructions were to go ahead three
PAGES and wnen ped on to fall and stay
there until 1 told him to get up. He did
this most religicusly, and the half closed
with scors OF IL to nothing against us.
By following my instructions Poly had
appeared as thorough duffer as ever put
on canvas jacket, and only my absolute
refusal to go on without him kept him in
place for the second half.
Play commenced, and we had the ball.
"Poly," l said, 'we must reach then
10 yard line, understand"
He smiled assent, and with rush we
started. The rest Of the wedge was torn
away, but Poly, with men hanging on
him like buttons, got there. We lined up
again, and back of the goal he lay down
on the bail. I kicked goal, and the blues
yelled themselves hoarse.
Harvard took the ball, but soon lost it. I
called ON Poly, and he repeated the per-
formance-apotherg goal, and the score was
tied. The former curses of the blues were
turned into yells of rapturous delight, and
Poly's cigar was forgotten.
I had arranged with chum to signal
me when we had five minutes play left.
Presently the signal came, and I drew
Polly aside.
''We will end this brilliantly" said.
"Don't stop now-get us touchdown"
He got half through the Harvard line,
stumbled and fell with their team piled
on top of him.
1t was moment of agony. Could he do
the trick?
had not long to wait. In an instant
the air was full of Harvard men, and
Polycrates was bling toward their goal,
smiling contentedly as he went. Sixteen to
twelve. Sure winner, with possible two
to swell the score. l made run for the
ball, gave terrific kick and 'Rah for
Yalep'-when found myself fiat on my
back beneath the Attic sky and the statue
in it's accustomed place.-Edwin Hall
Warner in Argonaut.