Show PAGE FROM ANCIENT HISTORY Incident of Hannibal's Career That Writers Appear to Have Overlooked Hannibal and his staff were pacing merrily over the Alps on their faithful war elephants Suddenly a man with a atin atin atin tin badge and chin whiskers rushed into the roadway and held up his hand You stop right where you be he cried Why should I stop thundered thun thun- dered the great Carthaginian as his mahout hooked the elephants elephant's ear Youre the speed limit replied replied re reo re- re plied the man with the star An Im I'm Ima a duly appointed constable by heck Hannibal was so overcome by this amusing holdup that he tossed a bag of to the officer and laughIng laughing laughing laugh- laugh Ing hysterically rode away Later on however his indignation uppercut his sense of or humor and he proceeded to slam the life out of the Roman consuls consuls consuls con con- and their picked veterans forcing forcing forcing forc forc- ing the fighting to the very gate of or shuddering Rome Boston Boston Traveler I |