| Show AXIS TALKS saidA All Ah ir rr be you iou ou t realize said A Axis Is that the world orld I Ian sn n t all s rapped up In work ork and trade and le lessons lemons sons and good 1 0 o Indeed I The world likes a game came as well nell as anyone any one So the world earth or or earth sees goes spinning Every day Everyday It mal males es as a n complete spin and It I spins right around on me Think riling of the earth spinning and think of me as the line Una going right through the center of the top of the earth upon which It Is 1 spinning It s no thought to think of the e a firth Irth spinning David said It was the truth too he thought and also ho felt that this speech would Axis You re right boy youre you're right Axis Is said saide ell e 1 ethe ell the earth makes make this complete spin once every eHry twenty four tour four hours Now v when hen the earth Is Ison Ison Ison on one side Ide there Is day and when It Itis Itla is 18 on the other side It Is night Just Justas Justas Justas as people get Into the habit of sleep sleep- sleepIng sleeping sleeping ing on one side aille and never changing so the earth always turns from th the west est to the east and never neer ne er changes this lIllS habit All the morning it would turn you yon toward the sun at noon you would pass the sun you vou ou could bid It good noon If you vou ou wished and In the after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon turn you away from It ft It Thais That s u why hy by the sun rises In the east and sets In the west est David ex- ex exclaimed exclaimed ex exclaimed claimed Good boy go to the head of ot the class said cald axis David didn t like tint that so much This Living Map warn wasn t like a class nut But l A t mean anything by It for he continued In so 80 friendly a way ny Its It s the earth you know that cs mo moses moes es and m mikes day and not night night the sun Ive Ie I ye never felt It moving II said All Ali that's because e we re so good goodat goodat goodat at the game We ve ye played It so long we re perfect A part of the tile earth s surface must go a thousand miles eVe ev- every ev every ery hour but it goes very smoothly 3 r tc r rI I 1 t And Makes Day and Night At one end of me Is a line caked North Pole and at the other end one called South Pole Then there Is one other grand an annual annual annual nual trip Its the earth turning upon me that makes one side have day while hUe the theother theother theother other has night and though the sun seems to set In the west we t It is in truth the earths earth's moving that t causes this hat s the yearly i early trip l David asked Oh yes once a year the earth moses moes in a long pathway path around the sun just lust as I might mo move mose e In a circle nIl all around something that had fallen on the floor though at the same sama time making my own o little spin The path of the earth is called the orbit orbit- orbit you sou ou would call it something fine One lIk like that too If you loved lo a favorite walk all or path as we e love lobe outs ouia And my dear David In some sonic parts of the earths s 01 orbit bit the lands that I are north of your our old friend I It in toward urd the sun and so soI I hase ha c spring and summer while the rest leaning lenning a away aay ay from the sun have restI nu au autumn I and winter Inter lou You seem to lean lein a little Axis Don t you stand up straight either I I like to lean a bit bit They often orten call me the Leaning Axis Awls My parents ne neer er minded They never said to me A Axis Is keep leep your shoulders back You don t want ant to be round shouldered shouldered dered They no never noer er sal said that Hint to me That seems funny tunny David D ld l mur rout mUl ell ed I I suppose It does oes to you agreed Axis but not to me Anyway Anway Io 10 en you enough of a spinning con conversation and I must be back at the I have bave to see to It that day plays fur and that night plays pia J fair fairand and Its It's almot almost time for night and the pageant t lou loure re goings i Page tnt asked d Das David Dald id I didn't know about It Oh Oh yes there s going to be a pug cent Time Is different In different plates as you ou know Its It's the five th e hours hour later in London than in your part of the world but world but the Magic Nagle Mip i eople said that you could bO t o from frow one court coun country country try to another In a u Map trip bothering about their time And ht ht was gh given en a u treat of seeing a cent i |
