Show AXIS TALKS All Au h 4 n rr you ou didn't realize said A Axis Is that the world Isn't all wrapped up In work and trade and lessons and good manners No 1 0 Indeed I 1 The world likes a game as ns well as anyone any one So the world or earth goes spinning Every day Everyday It makes a complete spin and It I spins right around on me Think of the earth spinning and think of me as the line going right through the center of the top of the earth upon which It Ii le spinning Its no small thought to think of ot the earth spinning David said It was the truth too he thought and I also he felt that this speech would please Axis Youre rf right ht boy youre you're right AxIs said suld Well the earth makes this complete spin once every twenty twenty- twenty four four hours Now when the earth Is Ison ison Ison on one side there Is day lIay and when It itis ItIs Is on the other side It Is night Just Justas Justas as people get Into the habit of sleep sleep- sleeping sleeping In ing on one side aide and never changing so the earth alwa always s turns from th the west to the east eust and und never changes thIs habit All the morning It would turn you toward the sun slIn at nt noon you rou would pass the sun bou you could bid It good good- noon If It you wished and In the after after- afternoon afternoon afternoon noon turn you away from lt It It why the sun rises In the east and sets In the west west David Dald ex- ex ex exclaimed claimed Good boy go o to the head of ot the class said Axis David didn't like that so much This Living LIing Map wasn't like a class But ut evidently Axis didn't mean menn anything by It for he continued In so ao friendly a way Its the earth you know that moves and makes day and night not night the sun Ive Ie never neer felt It moving David said All Ail that's because were we're so good goodat goodat goodat at the Ule game Weve We've played It so 80 long were we're perfect A part of the earths earth's surface must go a thousand miles ev- ev every ev every cr ery hour bour but It goes goe very smoothly 1 r And Makes Makos Day and Night At one ona end of me Is a line tine called North Pole and at the other end one called South Pole Then there Is one other grand an- an annual annual an annual nual trip Its the earth turning upon me that makes one side have day while the theother theother theother other has night and though the sun seems to set In the west It Is In truth the earths earth's moving that causes this the Ule yearly early trip DavId asked Oh yes once a year the earth moves moes in a long pathway around the sun Just as I might move moye In a n circle nil around something that had hall fallen on the floor door though at the same time making my o own little spin The path path- pathway pathway way of the earth is called the orbit orbit- orbit you ou would call It something fine like that too If you lo loved lod d a favorite walk or path as we love lo ours And my dear David In some parts of the earths earth's orbit the lands that are north of your our old friend Equator slightly toward the sun and so have spring and summer while the rest leanIng away uway from the sun have hae au- au autumn au autumn and winter You seem to lean a little AxIs Dont Don't you Ou stand up straight either I i like to lean a bit bIt bitt They often call me the Leaning Axis My parents never minded They never said to me 0 Axis Axis keep your shoulders bad back You dout dont want to be round rhe said that to dered They never me That seems funny runny David Id mur mur- murmured murmured I suppose It does to you ou agreed AxIs but not to me we Anyway u Ive given you enough of a spinning conn con conversation and I must be back at the game bame I have to see to It that day plays fair and that night plays plas fair fairand find and Its It's almost time for night and the pageant Youre You're going Pageant asked David I dIdn't know about It Oh yes es theres there's going to be a pageant cant Time Is different In plates as you know Its It's live five hours houri later In London than thun In your our part of the world but world but the Magic 1 Map tap said that Hint you could go from one coun coun- coun- coun country country try to another In u Map trip without bothering about their time And he was given a u treat of seeing a cent parade 1 |