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Show FOR THE SEA-HORSES The grown-up world is not much M wiser, after all, in Judging the un- M known than was the little girl whose M summing up of the situation is given in the New York Times. The child H is five years old, and lives in an in- M land town near which there is no M river, nor, in fact, any water but the M Eric Canal. M The child's mother made a visit to M New York, and on her return was fl '.clliug of her trip down the bay, and fl of how wonderful the sea looked to fl her. Her little girl was listening eag- jH H "Tell me just what the sea is like, H mama," she said. fl Her mother made an effort. "There's fl the beach," she said, "all smooth fl white sand. You stand on it and look M out over the ocean, and all you can M sec is just water, just moving water, M waves coming in and breaking, noth- fl ing but waUcr and sky." The child sat trying to picture it, 'fl then in an awed little whisper, asked: M "O mama, isn't there even a tow- M path?" I H |