Show 1 0 o f 1 Y Jv ApY JN GRAHAM BONNER OI n I U UMON I THE FALLS David did not know he had fallen asleep and that his bedroom had been beena a n wheat field until the next morning when all aU the Map people who passed by said morn good morning good Ins to him and told him hint they hoped he had had a s od nights night's rest Yes he lie had had that I but now he hc was very ery hun hungry ry None one of them offered him hint any breakfast lie ne couldn't even find Bread Basket and thou thought ht hed he'd better travel eastward lie lIc didn't want leant to go home not home not when I there were adventures to be had had had- I but even cn If It the cook was leas cross there was food at home always s lie He wondered If It ho he could find his home on the Living Map lIe He took tool a n road which led down Into Iowa lown and wandered over Into Illinois Illinois was on the way home at nt any rate But nut when he got there he kept kepton I Ion I Ion on walking and was just about as hungry as a n person could be he when Patrolman Indiana met him and said Theres breakfast waiting halting for tor you jOU beyond yonder brook Therell There'll be nothing fancy about It t but you'll have haven havea a n delicious home made farm break brenk- fast That was good news for David The breakfast was wag even better It was aM aU nicely laid out for him on a n tv F alt II 1 r a I f I Ni Niagara Falls grassy assy table and he ate ato every bit of ot I It As no one asked him to do the dishes and as ns he lie wouldn't have JUl known I where to put them afterward he left i er e everything Just as ns it ft was was except except I every dish was empty empt I lie He walked as ns Compass would have said northeast for he decided not to go home for some little while II yet lie He walked on and on and on Inthis in inthis inthis this direction But Dut suddenly he lie stopped A great and beautiful rushing of waters could be heard There before him he saw sa rapids such as ns he never ne believed could be Turning twisting rushing whirling I on without stopping carrying along I anything thrown in bits of log lob twigs tossing them this way and that then dashing madly on He walked balked a n few steps on until he came to the waterfalls he hc had heard in the distance n Niagara David wife said to himself I Niagara 1 Falls 1 lIe He stood then beside beside beside be be- side the great reat green white silvery-white rushing torrent of water falling In such enormous quantities n never e eve v e r stopping for rest It Impressed David to see the tho moss and ferns that still clung to the brown brown black rocks beneath the torren tor tor- ren rent t. t Across he could see a n sl sign n Dominion DominI Domin I ion of or Canada so he lie know he was near the border again But he was In the United States That he lie knew Across where the sign was and Just before It were falls In the shape of ofa a great reat horseshoe There was a little mist over oyer these but through the haze could be seen those wildly beautiful glorious Falls so that It seemed as though almost ever everything thins about himI him were falls 1 I IlIe I lie thought of the supply lj of water which never ran out out for for Niagara he I had always heard about and had never heard that It had ever eyer taken takena a n holiday from frow falling Ever Every once In a awhIle he lie half believed as he I watched that there would he be a pause or that the force of the water pourIng pouring pouring pour pour- ing down over the gr great groat at rocks would r not be so hen heavy He Ile walked about E Everywhere where the view seemed more dazzling ne saw buildings too where there was work being done olle to make stake use of ot the 1 power 01 0 of the water Ble Electricity David said to himself He ITe went and anel watched the work ork for here too were ere Map people showing g I how the power of Niagara Falls could be used David Da had hind sta stayed ed away awny from Crom the I cities lIe He had wondered If it was ns possible not to meet real people In cities s and he lie only wanted to meet I Map ap people Then too if there were ordinary people rather than Mop Map people In ht the cities how absurd he would look in his present Map lap size And y you you ou couldn't wand wander et about a city as you ou could over prairies pi aides and mountains and und past mines Still he are would like to see a n city some time just to see If it was a n Living Map city with Living Map Iap l I I people eople Just at present he ire could I not q quite make up his mind where he would go so next He sat down and und thought it over I |