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Show pip Daddy's LSpdLveiii$ Faiiy Tale 5yAARY GRAHAM BOWER Ctyt.Cl FT tiIH lOWirU UWrO- THE TWINS' STORY While David was having all his adventures, ad-ventures, he was meeting all sorts of people who belonged to the Living Map the map when it came to life as it had done for him. Now he had met the twins, Latitude and Longitude. They were deciding, or trying to decide, de-cide, who would tell his story first. "You'd better," sighed Longitude. "Don't sight, dear Longitude," said Latitude. "You haven't all my fat to carry around with you." "Nor have you my great height," Longitude replied. "You see," said Latitude, "I measure meas-ure distances East and West. From having done that It has made me very fat. It will, you know. "Spend your life, boy, In stretching from East to West as much as you can, and I'm sure you will find that you expand and get pretty broad especially es-pecially if it is expected of you and Is your job." "Or," said Longitude, "keep reaching up and up and at the same time down and down and you'll get long and thin, as is my shape. "Of course, you have to have a special spe-cial talent for the Job. But we have "Nor Have You Any Great Height." the talent, all right. No one has ever denied us that. "Nor has anyone tried to take qur jobs away from us because we've been successful, which is more than you can say about others. It's because they know they never do so well." "It seems to me," said David, "that you think a lot of yourselves. I know plenty of people who have no use for either of you. "You make yourselves so unfriendly that lots never, never feel they know you. You act so superior. "I couldn't be chummy with you until un-til I actually met you like this I rather like you now." "So that is the way some talk about us and think about us, eh?" asked Longitude. "Well, no matter. We'll have to speak to the General Overseer about this. It's his fault and not ours. He has made us so stiff and we've always al-ways felt that we were never given a proper show by him." "Who Is the General Overseer?" David asked. "We can't give the secret away," Longitude said. "Let me tell you about us now that you're chummy. "We so seldom get chummy with boys and we feel It rather. I am the member of the twinship who decides the distance East and West of a given place. "My headquarters are Greenwich In England and Latitude's are at the Equator. My followers or lines, as you'd call them, become very chummy. "That Is when it gets cold. You will notice how they get up by the North Pole and down by" the South Pole. "And we're very wise," he chuckled. "You ought to know that. They always al-ways speak of wise people having taken degrees at college, but whenever when-ever they speak of us they speak of our degrees and we have so many, too. "We start oft at headquarters with zero or nothing, and we add degrees all along our routes. "People tell how many degrees they are from this place or that by measuring. meas-uring. "Our wisdom measuring the enormous enor-mous world. Isn't that a magnificent Job?" |