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Show WW Ddddy'5 fairy Tale THE ATTIC In school they had Bald tliey were going to take up the Kaslern lleinl- sphere this year. mi m Prf Wi Like a Great Interest and so I Toy worid. vcry .,, 0U, was colorful and alive he hud understood how Geo (whose whole name was Geography, but who wanted to be called Geo for short) had wanted blm to have adventures. ad-ventures. He remembered Geo had told him how ha used to talk to the Facts and beg them to allow hlin to five boys and girls more of a chance. "1 want to say to them," Geo had told hlin, "to please Imagine the wheat fields, the great mountains, and digging dig-ging far Into the mines of the earth. I want to tell them that all over the world there are people Just as they are, busy people, eager people, boys and girls playing games, working, chntterlug, adventuring." Duvld couldn't quite remember how It all had happened In the first pince. lie had never been quite clear about the starting, though he remembered lie had been In the garden and it had been warm und sunny and little breeze was blowing nnd then Wind, Geo's air pilot, had blown him right Into the geography book he was sup- j posed to he studying, and It hud all conic to life, something like a great toy world. Then he had begun adventuring adven-turing Just after he had met Compass who had told hlin how much attracted he was by the earth, nnd how he kept his head to the North and his feet to the South and his arms East and West. Still It was jnysterlous how it all had happened. It was about the same time of the yenr now, but it was not so warm, and It was raining. A slow, steady rain had made David think of the attic. He thought he would go up there to study, and now he had come up to this friendly old attic where there were so many of his old boats, a trapeze upon which he could do the most . difficult of circus tricks, and where there was the little staircase that led on to the roof. He used to like to go out there on nice days, but now. of course, it was too rainy, and besides he had come up here to study. But as he sat with the map of ttie Easterc Hemisphere before him, he decided it would be fun If he sat at the top of the little flight of stairs, and looked out to see if the rain was letting up at all. ne opened the door at the top of the stairs and looked out. U still was rnlnlue hard. The roof looked very smooth and glistening, glis-tening, but he noticed no-ticed something he had never noticed no-ticed before. There were lines on the roof. Some went up and down It, and others across from side to side. He wondered why he bad never noticed this before when he had been up here so many, many times. Certainly Cer-tainly they must have been here. David remembered h o w lieu had promised hlin that perhaps Home day he could have adventures ad-ventures on that side of the world. How he wished he could take a trip now I Before ho iiad had his ids first Journey, be had never liked geography. That was before ho had adventured through a map. When he had seen that all over, there were places of such PIS They were so Clearly marked. Friendly Old Surely they had Attic, been there a long time. And then, all of a sudden, he noticed no-ticed a little creature sitting on the lines that were going up and down, and another little creature Just like the first one, sitting on the lines that were going across. . There was something very familiar about their looks. Then he knew I They were the twins Latitude and Longitude 1 |