Show BOOK ONE which Is the story of the candle and the compass CHAPTER I 1 the melon hayest Hr yest once upon a ti pi a watermelon I 1 sayi once because ittner did it again go got ow ril ng that melon I 1 never wonted another the time was 1831 1931 awa r I 1 was s a boy of seven and the melon was the first of all tn my y harvests harvests I 1 know much about myself those days except the fact that my name was bart baynes and further that 1 I 1 was an orphan who owned a watermelon and a lititia spotted d hen lin and lived on ana n neighborhood e 1 g hot d laifed I with wl ith my aunt deel and my uncle ceab freebody fre ody bayness nea on a afara farm they were brother RIO sister he abndt about eight and she a little beyond the far distant goal of forty my father and mother ded ja n a scourge 41 q f di diphtheria that swept tee ib e neighborhood when I 1 was a boy of live five A few days after I 1 arrived in the home of toy iny aunt andun aud uncle cie I 1 slyly entered the parlor and climbed the whatnot to examine some white flowers tin its top shelf ibell and tippet tipped them the whole thing over scattering its burden of albums wax flowers and seashell seashells sea shells s on the laflor my aunt come came running on her tiptoes tiptoed dad and exclaimed mercy I 1 come right out auto 0 here this minute you peat I 1 I 1 took some rather long steps going out which were due to the fact that aunt deel deef had hold bold of my hand while I 1 sat eat weeping site she went back into the parlor and began to pick up things my wreath 1 my iny wr wreath eathl I 1 I 1 heard ler her moaning how well I 1 remember that little assemblage sem blage of flower ghosts in daxl they hid no more right to associate with human beings than the ghosts of fable uncle peabody used to call them the minervy Ml nervy flowers because they were a present from his 1119 aunt minerva when aunt deai returned to tc the kitchen where I 1 sat it a sor sorrowing rov little refugee hunched n corner she said til ill have to tell your ybur uncle lobody ayeal oh piuse pi pt use dontrell dont tell my uncle pea bolij boci I 1 walled balled ayeal ill eliav li aveto to tell him site she an rm firmly |