| Show I D dV GYS Y s If t cl I f Fairy Eiry iry T Tale Te le OP ARY Y NN i 0 n r BOMBER BO THE ATTIC In school they had said they were going to take up the Eastern item item- sphere tills this year w David remembered how liow Geo had promised him that li Wl perhaps some day he could have havo adventures ad- ad adventures ventures on that Hint li side of the world low How ho wished wished he could take a trip trip Before Before- J ho he had z zhe had his his first journey 1 he had never liked geography I f That was before before Y lie he had adventured ml through a map When he had seen 11 II 1 that all over there suchLike were places of or such Like a Great interest and so Toy world Won very y much mud that was as colorful and andI andall andaline I all aline e he had understood how Oeo Geo whose whole name was Geography but who wanted to be called Geo for tor short had wanted him to have hae ad- ad adventures ad adventures ventures lie He remembered Geo Oeo had told him how he used to talk to the Facts and beg them to allow v him to give boys and girls more of ot a chance cliance I want to say to them Oeo Geo had told him to please Imagine the wheat wheatfields wheatfields fields the great mountains and dig dig- digging digging ging far Into the mines of the earth I want lInt to tell them that all over the world there are people Just as they are bu busy y people eager people boys and ond girls playing games working chattering adventuring David couldn't quite remember howit how howit it If all nIl had happened In the first place lIe He tied never nver been quite clear about the starting though h he lie remembered he had been Icen In the garden and It had been warm and sunny and c t little breeze was blowing and then Wind Geos Geo's air pilot had blown him right Into the reo geography ophy book Look he lie was sup- sup posed to be studying and It had an all come to life something like liko a great toy world Then he had begun adventuring adventuring turIn turing just jUt after aCter he had met Compass who had lind told him how liow much attracted he was by the earth and how he kept his head hend to the North and his feet to the South and his arms East and West Still StI It was mysterious how bow It all had happened It was about the same time of the year yar now but It was not so warm and It was raIning mining A slow v steady rain had bod mode made David think of the attic He lie thought he would go 10 up there to study and now he had come up to this friendly old attic where there were so many of ot 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 roof root lie He used to like to go 10 out there on nice days but now of ot course It was too rainy and besides he had bad come up here to study But as he sat sal with the map mop of ot the Eastern Hemisphere before decided It would be bs fun If It he be sat atthe at atthe atthe the top of ot the little flight of ot stalls stairs and looked out to see If U the rain was letting up at aIL nil a He Ill opened the door at the top ot of the stairs and looked out It still was raining hard The roof looked very li smooth and glis 11 1 I Ii i 1 WW V but he lie no no- no ls something he hey y had n never eve r no noticed no- no noticed before There V i w were e lines JInes on the y roof roof Some went 1 i up and down doom It and others across across- acro from side Ide to side il He lle won wondered de dered red why he had never noticed this before W when he lie had been y Sup 1 up here herl so many ft l many s many tIme times lf they must have been here lv s They were so 60 clearly m mar marked a r k ked e d Friendly Old ad Attic Surely they t had hod ben been there a longtime long longtime time And then all of ot a sudden he no- no noticed no noticed on the n I little creature sitting tines s that were going up and down and another little creature Just like the lines tines that the first on-e on one sitting on were gong going across something very familiar There was about their looks Then Ihen be he knew They were the twins Latitude twins Latitude and Longitude I |
