Show DAY eve fairy tale VARY GRAHAM ippi kAm THE ATTIC in school they had bad said they were going to take up the eastern sphere this year david remembered how geo had promised him that perhaps some day he could have adventures on that side of the world how lie he wished he could take a trip bowl now 1 before lie he had had his bis his first journey he had bad naver never liked geography geo graphy that was before he had bad adventured through a map when he had seen that all over there were places of such like a great interest and so toy world tt very much that was colorful and alive he had understood how geo whose whole name was geo geography gr achy but who wanted to be called I 1 geo for short had wanted him to have adventures lie ile remembered geo had told him how he used to talk to the facts and beg them to allow him to give boys and girls more of a chance 1 I want to say to them geo had told him to please imagine the wheat fields the great mountains and digging gin far into the mines of the earth I 1 want to tell them that all over the world there are people just as they are buy busy people eager people boys and girls playing games working chattering adventuring david quite remember how it all had happened in the first place ne bad never been quite clear about the starting though he remembered he be had been in the garden and it had bad been warm and sunny and a little breeze was vias blowing and then wind acos air pilot bad blown him right into the geography book he was supposed to be studying and it had all come to life something like a great toy world then he had bad begun adventuring just after he had met compass who had told him how much attracted he was by the earth and how he kept ills his head to the north and his feet to the south and his arms east and wet west still it was mysterious how it all had happened it was about the same time of the year now but it was not so warm and it was raining A slow steady rain had bad made david avld think of the attic he thought he would go up there to study and now he be had come up to this friendly old attic where there were so many of his old boats a trapeze upon which he could do the most difficult of circus tricks and where there was the little staircase that led on to the tha roof he used to like to go out there on nice days but now of course it rainy and besides he had come up here to study cut but as he sa sat t with the map of tho the eastern hemisphere before him ho he decided it would be fun if he sat at the top of the little light flight of stairs and looked out to see it if the rain was letting up at all i ile he opened the door at the top ot the stairs and looked out it still was raining hard the root roof looked very smooth and glistening but he noticed something he be had never noticed before there were lines on the root roof some went up and down it and others across from side to side ile he wondered why he had never noticed this before villen nhen he had been up tip here so many many times certainly they must have anve been here awl they were so clearly rn marked a r k e d friendly old surely sur e ly they had attic been there a long time and then all of a sudden he noticed a little creature sitting on the lines that were going up and di down aan and another little creature just like the first one sitting on the lines that were going across there was something ver very y familiar about their looks then he knew they were the twins lat latitude and longitude I 1 |