The times., 1897-04-29
PARKER, BRIDGET & CO,
Sl6 enth street.
a STORY WORTH READING
Dryden's "Epic" Upon lcIsie's Reap
pearance in the Game.

Dryden's "Epic" Upon Ieusie's Reap
pearance In the Game.
Baseball fans and the general reader who
knows nBught of hits and rms and he par
lance OF the diamond VIII appreciate the
following symposium from the pen Of the
talented Dryden, baseball editor of the New
York Journal. He describes the return
OF Pitcher Rusiein this unique and original
manner, which is d paraphrase OF writ
familiar topall:
Now it CAME to pass that on the twenty
second day OF the 70 urth month, Amosenius
the son OF Rusie, who dwelleth afar in the
land or Indiana, waXed sore afraid In
exile, and wisdoInincreased with his years
Therefore, he lifted up his tongue, saying
In loud voice:
This day will rise and get me he-se
to the plains OF Harleniuni, where Bildad,
the Bleacherite, roareth, and Andenius, the
Magnate, mourneth for the pennant be
cause it is not.
'For it is not craven on tablets In the
temple OF Andenius that 1 shall cop off
four and twenty hundred scudi per? And
/ fain would clog my system with the
doughnuts that the giants do eat"
So saying, Amosenius, the son OF Rusie,
swart of face and stout of wing, did gird
up his gunny sack with implements Of
war. He bestowed therein his sandals of
kangaroo skin weighing ninety shekels
of brass, an leather girth piece, two phials
OF precious charley horse ointment end
many leaves OF the tobacco plant, wrought
into plugs and garnished with mOsaics of
tin from the marts of jersey City.
And again and again, nay, even thrice,
did AInosenius speak unto himself, saying
in placid accents:
verify, l am chump, no. not, nit No
more will waste my substance in riotous
pinochle, and only with the high fast ball
shall the fans OF Harlenium behold HE en-
crossed"
At these words Andenius waxed exceed
ing joyful, and caused them to be scat
tered broadcast among the scribes and
Pbarisees. And lot the voice of tie scoffer
was husbed in the land
Now when the twenty-seventh day OF
the fourth month was Come the multitude
that assembled from the highways and
byways of the city 10 roost on the wind
swept bastions numbered o 900 human be-
ings, and the Philistine who did serve as
umpire.
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were there tarried at home with the oil
stoves.
And when tie hour of four was struck
the disciples of Andenius said, one TO the
other:
Behold, Anosenius, the prodigal, has
returned to the plain. He Will make mon
KEYS OF the hosts of the scoffer, Wagnerius." ,"
yerily.these words were the words OF
hY l5rp
ly. vet were the invaders overcome by
score of s tallies to 3.
For it is written ON the score card that
the army Of wagnerius could not swat
marble mausoleum were it pitched unto
them.
And, 10 and behold, as the tumult ceased
and silence brooded over the plain of llar-
leniuni, there did issue forth Colonel Coo
ganlus, the Bluffite, who did observe the
battle from his cave on the hillside.
And it was meet that this man should
smite himself ON the BOSOM and proclaim
from the ramparts so that allmighthear
Behold in me the Mascot, that has come
out of the wilderness to save"
And straightway the Bluffite did offer to
the scribes some mixed pickles and be-
sought them to smoke.
a no IL Cdllie 10 pass tHdt III tue uitusl VI
the hattie the umpire did take from one
Giant ten pieces of silver and from another
twenty pieces
Whereat spake one who was not of the
arena, saying:
Whence cometh this man brewing tur-.
moil? Let him depart and soak himself
in the brook Harlenium which is over
against Astoria
But they suffered him to remain, and he
was an eyesore
And wher the end was come the multi
tude fell into the arena to touch the hand
of their redeemer, AmoseDius, and kiss the
hem of his tOga.