Show 10 fairy fair J r taie ale AT MAW lar N THE BIG TABLE david began to walk up north now passing through th forests of great redwood trees which seemed to him like a forest of magic ile he passed over many a living mop map mountain they were ere unlike mountains lie he had ever seen for one which had a sign upon it sit alt or mt tocoma wits was capped with snow As he walked along many little men hurried by him they looked exactly like patrolmen or policemen except I 1 alint I 1 I 1 fi forms seemed to be of fe d different 1 f r ent colors lie ile caught up with a group of them and as they marched along they sung sang I 1 we are patrolmen you may never see bee but t we al always ways do our work wre re pol policemen icamen icemen too you lou really might say ay our jobs we do not shirk were the boun adry men the boundary y men the boundary men forsooth and a state or a town or a country itself cant tell us a tingle bingle untruth 1 I wonder it if I 1 could anine along too david suggested ive nothing very veri special to do that Is I 1 dont b anve n v e to go anywhere I 1 dont went want to go the hie patrolmen seem to think this was astonishing in the least we hoped loud come with us in e 7 9 everyone has fact the banquet Is being given tm foy you one of them said it was as all david could do to leep keep up with them they walked so quickly its the first news ive had of it david exclaimed perhaps Pei haps you ou sent my invitation home no we do that another said we never neer sent you sou an imitation invitation were giving tile the banquet for you arid and we vie hoped loud come nil all david thought it was vv as rather strange not to be invited beforehand to a banquet which was given in his honor batlle bu hut he decided it was best not to talk it tool all his breath to walk so rapidly at last they stopped and from every direction more and more patrolmen kept arriving though they wore oie different colored uniforms each had brass buttons and each carried a stout round stick attached to the belt some odthe of the uniforms were of such bright colors too some green some blue some pink some lavender some brown some yellow david noticed that on one side of a great long table was a sign which dominion of canada and on the side he was still standing by bv there was a sign which said united states so be had come up tip to the border line the table was very long ion and ti now ow the different patrolmen were taking their places As they did so they topped stopped and chatted with each other about the different kinds of weather they had been having haeng in the parts of the country front from which they came they called each other by names of states mites there was patrolman wyoming find and patrolman Pi california and patrolman arkansas and so on and now david decided that that was yuliy wh they had ill dIf Terent colored uniforms just as the states were in different colors on the map so the patrolmen of the living mop map from the various states were vere in different colors four somewhat bigger patrolmen came now and butting boing low before david said youre to sit at the head of the babl e ali the table was covered with all kinds of cf food it seemed as though david ind had never seen so much food and that pleased him for lie he was vaa quite li tingry Is As each patrolman tied seated himself lie had put something good to eat upon the table it had been some time since duld david D uld lind li id last eaten and just shortly bp be fore he had find left home lie he had not been ille to get at that cookie jar ile he won dred what tile the cook was thinking now I 1 hed be able to tell her something about a good dinner lias ilas everyone bi ought brought something disked the patrol gentleman who nho sat lit id davids right ile he seemed to be a rind kind of master of ceremonies everyone avei ione lins has they shouted 1 I said david bouie youre the guest of honor lie was told and nil all the others looked tit at him blin and shouted three cheers for the guest of honor |