Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-02-13
A ASTRONOMICAL FEAST.
HOW THE SERVANT PASSED
THE GATE.
Bailed Him Out of Bad Situation
By Making Use of Some
Good Wit
WHICH HE MANAGED TO
STIR TO ACTION.

10 tile astronomical trangcenuen-
talism and great ability in operating
his interior maxillary of q colored ser
want at the Naval Academy is due his
immunity from arrest on Saturday.
Ii was his wonderful resouroefulness.
aided and abetted by castiron inter
nal organization which made il nos.
slble for him TO turn victory TO defeat
and, while he did not take the cake
IN this instance. he carried off the pies.
One OF the we'll known rules at the
Naval Academy is one which positive.
ly forblds any person TO carry pack.
age out of the gates unless that person
can produce pass from some officer
OF the academy. One of the officers
family at the Academy has a man ser
yant whose ability to dispose of eat
ables IN the briefest space of time is
the wonder of the place. Saturday
this son of Ham left the residence Of
his employer to visit his family. In
either hand he carried large pie of
huge dimensions They loomed up
like the fighting top on man of war
and the sugar which covered their sur
face would have been readily taken
for snow before it had reached the
city streets of Annapolis.
In pleasurable anticipation of the
treat in store for the "oId oman"
and the allowance she would make
him out OF his salary, which he car
rled IN an inside pocket, he hurried
along. With great care and steadiness
OF purpose he moved along, little
dreaming of the rude manner in which
his better half would be mulcted of
her pies. Arrived at the gate he was
about to pass through when the guard
on duty brought him to sudden real
zation OF things mundane by re-
quest to halt. Still smiling broadly
he did as directed, but when he was
told he could not pass, the gate with.
out having pass his face became as
long as the steeple ON st. Anne's
Church.
He explained that the pies had been
given him by his employer and that
he did not care TO break in his after
noon siesta to certify to the fact that
the pies were not purloined or bor-
rowed. The guard was obdurate and
refused to permit the man to pass
They stood and discussed the merits
of the case, they built hypothetical
arguments covering everything from
the theft OF an armored cruiser to the
Academy buildings themselves, but
were unable to settle upon any solu-
tion of the problem which would per.
NIT of the colored man leaving the
grounds. The pies, which had been
sending forth hot breath of nectarian
sweetness and filling the air with
their aroma. grew colder and colder
and the servant, who had been put
through the thirty second degree of the
inquisition, suffered corresponding
drop in his feelings. He stood on one
foot and then the other, gazed ruefully
at the pies and looked with a finely
discerning eye at the guard to see If
he was open to the Establishment of
one of the pies.
Satisfied by the scrutiny that there
was nothing doing he scratched his
head in an effort to get something
(his brain OF course) in motion and
pondered for some time while the
guard, ever ready to stop q sudden
break through the gate, smiled in sat
isfied content at the problem he had
presented. Then a broad smile spread
over the we'll fed countenance of the
one who had the pies He grinned
from ear to ear until his teeth stood
out like pond lilies on the banks
edge. With great deliberation he un-
tied the packages, rolled his eyes in
pleasant 1 anticipation and sunk his
ivofies into one edge of a pie.
A quick and a we'll timed gulp an a
section of the pie was down the little
red lane, making tracks to join the
hearty dinner he had just disposed of.
With a skill born of great practice he
managed to get both pies slowed away
although the last two sections needed
many acrboatic stunts for its efface-
ment. Then he grinned like Cheshire
cat out for a holiday, gave a pleasant
nod to the guard and passed out OF
the gate carrying the forbidden pies in
his internal organism, safe from the
prying eyes of those who would bar
his progress.