Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-26

the charge. leaped into his chariot and,
/ flashing his mighty horses. drove thun-
/ dsring upon us. His first hurled bolt
| missed its mark. ripped pas, Us and
| struck wall across the canyon. shat
i tering portion of it ana sending the
| fragments daShins down the precip!ce.
On rolled the Olymp:an cavalry Of
clouds in fresh barrag,, The hastal-
| ion Of winds charged our oaSsion. over
| hurting our Flagstaff and slashing our
brave bandana into ShredS. Apoi.o,S
! archery followed close behind A hun
bred million raindrop' arrows he shot
into our faces and drove through our
tapping clothes. Back and forth over
US, under us, the great chariotS rum
bled.
We grew wettsr, colder. more rniSer-
able To leave our little shelter and
try TO stand against the onslaught
would be cruel punishment. 10 remain.
With the icy water pouring IN gsillies
over us, was just as cruel The d.
lsmma was abruptly solved by an
especially furious assault Of the wind.
| which. accompanied by cloudourSt,
fiuns itself with n rcar against our bat
Element and toppled it on TO our heads
gave myself up for dead, hoy>ed
was dead: anything to escape the un-
endurahle plaques Of cold and rain, I
lay still and aching under my granite
grave until l heard Lazarus. somewhere
IN the melee Of arms and legs and
stones, shout some terrible blaSphsu,y
at the elements, Here WAS the old
lighting spirit. Rod and Joined III the
chorus and supplemental Lazarus pro-
fame sounding vstUpesationS with nne
string OF our own,
THIS castisation Of the gods only in-
creased their indignation, II raisss'd
harder than ever do not believe ,u-
piter would have let us live through one
more hour Of this exposure had I not
thought Of u perfectly obvious method
Of gaining relief from his wfath~~Sae-
rissces, How stupid Of us not 70 have
/, thought Of this even before beginning
the ascent No wonder he mlsunder-
stood our Intentions A ram offered up
| that morning would undoubtedly have
| assured us bright skies and clear pic
| ture Of the classic world from olympus
top, While We had eare!eSSly torsotsem
10 bring along up the preeipiee any fat
rams or wreath-huns ballocks, Il might
| not yet be too late Tor same modest
Offering Of prupitiation,
Quickly I made an inventory " all
NNt NAtAtNNS kApkNktsSN oSAN w tfS
! tofrential darkness eSaansandeegvd
whatever WAS disclosed. should have
liked 70 sacrifice RcdcslcS m.sstaehs,
, but II MAS understandable. With this
gfeat prise eliminated. the collection
was not very impressive. IL consisted
u one pocketful NJ sour. weathsseeAten
! seats cheese tfsuM IAsAyNSi and a
,, small bottle u mAStlkA. q highly alee~
! helic Greek liquor which tastes ~ much
like stale psregorie that even though Il
had been given ~ me by the shepherds
for lust such emergencies ~ THIS, l
would rather have tTVasn ~ death than
| drunk It. THIS msstikA weula be a
: splendia sttt u Jupiter since l
couldn't swallow II. anyway.
We were sarey Handicapped ~ not
| Knowing much about classic ritual,
burning the offering an pNseN wAs enc
! way, but With our eheeSe dissolved 10 \
so,.py consistency and With onr matches
Heating around IN our eeeksts and