Show daw Y 5 I 1 edehl N fairy tale marf GRAHAM BOWER i 11 1 1 1 T THE HE CITY she was standing near whore where tho atlantic followed lila his course and sw slie seemed scarcely more than it 11 girl she was very beautifully dressed and looked very rich and also very interesting david wondered it if lie he dared speak to lier her and yet atlantic had told him that lie he was expected while he was as making up his mind she smiled at him find sald in a voice which was t thrilling h r I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 n g even though there was a high somewhat borne what 41 1 would love to shrill note about it talk to y you au P I 1 are you ya trying to see my sisters over beyond that ocean I 1 hoped you would talk to me I 1 am at ways ready to give a stranger welcome 1 I would love to talk to you david said 1 I dont know any of your sisters he added in fact 1 I know there was vas a you yen until a few moments ago clave ilave you any brothers no she said were all a family ramify of girls I 1 must tell you my name it Is new york 1 new york repeated david but new york a city exactly said the young woman were all cities all we girls im one of the youngest irk in tho the family all 11 of f us ua over at this side of tho the world are the very young children of our world p parents 1 arents but we have the family ways even more than some of those sisters the way we have of gathering people around us w were re all very sociable by nature we love people and people love us people from one city will say to those from another you city Is all very well perhaps it Is better known but we love ours best everywhere you will find too how we city girls love people even when members of our family move to the country at once growing towns and then cities spring up its ita just our way of gathering friends about us sometimes my people will say any we w will III move out of town a bit and get the country air but they stay too near to me they want to keep in touch and so it Is you will find cities spreading out and out it la Is all because the people and the cities cant bear to lose one another entirely you have heard people speak of places near cities which now seem a part of the cities and yet which so short a time before were farm lands its because we dont really want to leave one another how many people come to see me met I 1 some come to trade just as aa you trade many of your p possessions os sessions with your companions so I 1 trade with the other great cities of the world 1 I send forth to them the things 1 which they r 1 1 1 and they send to PIP me and then I 1 t trade ra do for other ot h e r parts of the country f too r they say rm im good at this our world parents always caldwe said we girls had great heads tor for business and sitting a and n d I 1 just juit seemed to talking come by it nat aurally ur ally some of us send out livestock live stock leather wheat copper cotton tobacco iron steel while some of the things we get from other count countries rles are tea and coffee sugar spices silks rubber berh hides ldes and an d linen but come and sit alt down id like to chat with you I 1 think you will be comfortable on my skyscraper couch I 1 have it down here by the harbor barbor a alc nice coni comfy fy long couch from which we have the most moat beautiful view then thea ril ill tell you something of the family history david was a little nervous at the thought jot upon pon a sky skyscraper scrap er couch but he be did so and there hp he was sitting and talking to a city herself jt it was a wonderful thing to do |