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Show First Comes The Man This is the story of little Jimmy, who said, "Dad, please read to me". Father, himself absorbed in a book, must find a way to divert Jimmy's interests. On Dad's desk under a plate glass is a map of the WORLD, which he cut up like a scattered jig-saw puzzle into more than a hundred pieces. Dad says, "Jimmy, you shall have a dollar, if you put this map together", thinking that it will take the boy all evening to do so. In less than an hour Jimmy tells his father that he has put the map of the world together. Dad questions this. Jimmy is insistent. Father looks, and there on the desk is the map of the world, every piece and parcel fitted and completed to perfection. "Son, how did you do this so quickly, but particularly so well?" asks Father. Jimmy says, "Dad, on the other side of the map was the picture of a Man. So, I put the Man together, and when I made the Man right, the World was right". |