Show MORE CHATTER I y u c con can see sec con continued A Australia w who o lo loved ed to talk talk when given a n- n chance o outside of ot sc school ool time how slow people were in I learning I So o I think that z when p people i e say sar tho those iou younger ger tha than they are are stupid Q they should t stop 3 to think how howlong long i t RM P how v very ry very long It took them 1 to know about big bib 4 things such as con con- conI I I I Even after they did discover me not many ships came camo tp visit me I was tJ tt off o the trade routes I 11 Was Off the and every one goes Trade TradeR R Routes Rutes utes' utes in a bit for tradIng trad trad- Ing Ing- The liThe first people came here from England to settle and here near near near- East and South East coasts shrieked a little creature Interrupt interrupt- ing I Hello Compass I shouted David How How- he did enjoy meeting his ol old friends like Uke this But Compass was busy and did not say any more so so Australia went vent on i Compass as always Is correct My best st st. land Is near nea th the Ea East and n South o East coast and ana its it's nere here time that rye Ive got Pacific to do me n a little favor Dont I know It though chuckled PacIfic Pacific- In his deep rolling fashion Dont I know It he murmured I Ul know what you ou asked me to do but you asked It s so so pleasantly and so politely po po- politely Australia that how could I a abIg abig abig big gallant ocean refuse What did Australia ask you to todo todo todo do David inquired Asked me to let the Alps and Blue mOl mountains along this eastern coast have my winds carry vapor apor to them So there Is r rain ln You were always arrays so kind said Australia and my dear Alps no relation relation relation rela rela- tion except a distant mountain family family fam fam- U ily connection n to the Swiss Alps and Blue mountains are such helpful mountains Do your distant relatives ever visIt vIsIt visit vis vIs- it you David aske asked Oh no said Australia mountains always s 's keep their distances II I I wish some of my relatives did that thaI David said Poor boy s sympathized Australia You see mountains mountain a are all ambitious stretching up and up in the world carr carrying out th their Ir own ideas but they're not selfish They lont dont dont don't Just think of themselves res and their own heights They think of ot others too Its lIts around these parts that there are more of ot my Inhabitants as you'd ond say and my largest cities are here Some people have gone further north Dorth and further west of my mountains mountains mountains moun moun- but there Isn't so much rainfall They say there Is 1st enough for tor meadows meadows meadows mead mead- and fields and pastures II But ut these mountains of mine I Forgive me If I seem seem to boast of them They ha e gold and mines In them too find friend Up north you'd your OUr Torrid Zone Geo said you ou had been seeing him lately That does seem so funny to think of Torrid being north too I remember remember remember ber Equator wa was north of us when we were flying lying over the Indian ocean orean v to reach you Yes funny but true South Tern Tem A or Senty s as as' we call him J c wanders around the rest of ot my land You wont won't see I your variety of people of course as you wander about as that can only happen in to the thereal thereal thereal real world and not In the map even though it has come cometo cometo cometo to life but Ive I've Such Helpful asked a few of ot Mountains the animals to be around to show you OU what an nn odd lotof lotof lot of or Interesting beasts I 1 have But dear me when they came here years jears ears ago they brought some of ot their own animals and plants and so I I 1 have wheat and corn and grain and sheep and cattle They love It here They weren't even homesick They've been thriving ing lag from the start |