| Show dadd J E faerk ceatria Ce 1 azria tale ale T MARY GRAHAM 7 A WANDERING david walked right into russia and he walked and he walked and lie he walked ile he wandered up north but stopped when it became too cold and came south again as lie wanted to follow the sign he had seen which had said this way to the frozen belt near the arctic ocean he fie walked through forests and once h he e thought lie he saw a wolf ile he came to a part then where rye and oats were growing and then further south where there was a grent great deal of wheat ue he walked on keeping south but turning somewhat toward the east until he came to the dry plains which he noticed were called the steppes he had never known before what was meant by russian steppes certainly lie he had never expected them to be no more than treeless plains which some grass upon them where horses and cattle were grazing ile he noticed that the caucasus mountains were rising from the steppes and compass come came along to tell him 4 2 e davids supper that the caspian sea was nearby but that the ocean was far oft off and that the steppes got little rain lie he felt he had never walked so much compass had gone off again ile he was feeling very very tired ills his legs ached even though the ma magic le map alap made countries easy for traveling russia was so huge in proportion to the others that lie he was exhausted and he be was ready to fall asleep just before he was about to close his eyes be noticed a picnic spread before him with the words davids supper upon a little card ile he had a dish of cabbage soup and some I 1 bread and tea with sugar and lemon which lie drank out of a glass nis his meal refreshed him so he wandered dered da a little more passing by great rivers and hearing map people singing along a river which he passed again and again called the volga in the morning when he awoke after a long heavy sleep geo was sitting by him it a huge country david asked as lie sleepily opened his eyes ile he bathed in a river nearby and then had eggs and milk and a bread like cake for breakfast dussias Rus sias a great country geo said ive always felt one could stretch ones les legs 0 in hussla but speaking of stretching liow how russia can stretch hl 1 she stretches eastward from central europe right to the ural mountains and no small stretch of course as were ere always saying you time to see every everything thin and so many cities and towns and rivers and mountains and valleys you must miss but the black sea is very eager you should call there its just south of this huge country find and maybe like to po go there now Is it really a dlack black sea david asked a S k e d yes its writer water Is very dirk dark geo answered would you like to go there it pleased david to have no loss a personage persona e than geo claphy a ask sl him it if lie ile would like ille to call on the sea that showell geo was not in the book now he insist upon anything so further south david wandered until lie he came to the end of sla sia and there tie ike saw an edorino enormous US dark body of water it aci pie ille sea |
