Show DADDYS EVENING M mar graham a rr B banner THE TOY VILLAGE As david sat before the map it seemed ns as though it wits was growing larger till nil the time growing and growing and ami still keeping ou on growing but as the map kept growing lo lie 10 noticed tic d with it start that lie ho hail b ad grown smaller lit hf was quite tiny now but lie ho felt very much relieved about this certainly if the whole world were going to turn into a map na its it appeared to bo be doing it would be much more convenient for him to be small no map no matter how largo large could ever be the size of the whole world and so it was better that lie he was smaller and more of n ina map lie ile got up and found that walking on the map was just exactly ilice walking on the ground lie ilo walked a little distance to watch from one side what was going on lie ile chose a comfortable part of tile map upon which to sit when all of a sudden tile the map no longer looked like a map instead it seemed to bo be just like a little world with little rivers and hills and laties lakes and oceans and lie ha was now sitting on off watching lie he said to himself tho the growth of tile the world the ants had completely disappeared p cared there were signs dotted everyll everywhere lere 1 to the left 0 of f him lie r read ead ocean and lie could seo see one far nr t to 0 the right which lind had it a sign near it which rend read atlantic ocean lie could just make out tile two words not far away from that was ills his homo hom state certainly lie he had gone far off when lie he had stepped to ono one side while the map ans growing its ju just st like the toy village which eisaw I 1 saw tit lit the fair this summer david thought lie he had loved that toy village it was exactly like a village only very much reduced in size this was like a toy world now the hills had grown so s 0 high lie he could not see atlantic atland c oceans sign and lie he felt the toy world was much larger than any toy world could be lie thought perhaps he had better stay here near the pacific ocean until lie could get his bearings and make ma ko sure suie where ho he wanted to go next hut but as he began to make up his mind a tho the growth of the world little chap just about davids size came and stood st in front of him lets sit down his new friend said after lie had shaken hands im thinking of adventuring david remarked all right ile he seem to bo be n nearly early so impressed as david felt lie he should be its no surprise to me lie he added after it a moment the general overseer told us all you sou were going to adventure re 1 I dont know him david said illow how could lie hoe have known I 1 had made up my mind to see eee tills this world this magic kind of mop map toy world magic kind hind of map so that Is what you call it davids visitor laughed what would you call it david asked A living map hapl I 1 for that Is what it really Is I 1 and when you are adventuring you will only meet the map people you wont meet any ot of your own tr fri lendi endi you may hear of other people but you wont meet ali them m meet oraly only those who are important in a map way just as youre meeting me the speaker stretched out his legs yes he was just about davids present size were you ever any bigger david asked 1 I was no to the first question and as ai to your second remark 1 I already knew that dut but you see when it happened that you jou fell into tile the living slap map you quickly became the size of a living map alap person we have one gannt or some one almost approaching pro aching that size going about with ath us it would bo be much too awkward |