Show dadds did everit fairy tale ARY GRAHAM BOWER THE ATTIC in school they had said bald they were going to take up the eastern hemisphere r this year david remembered how geo gen had promised him that perhaps some soma day he could have ad ventures on that side of the world how lie wished lie he could take a trip now I 1 before he be had had bad his alg his first journey he had never liked geography that was before he had adventured through a map when he had bad seen that all over there were places of 0 such like a great interest and so toy world very much that was colorful and alive he had understood how geo whose whole name was geography but who rho wanted to be called geo tor for short had wanted him to have adventures he remembered geo had told him how he used to talk to the facts and beg them to allow him to give boys and and girls more of a chance 1 I want aut to say to them geo had told him to please imagine the wheat fields the great mountains and digging far into the mines of the earth I 1 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 chattering ad adventuring venturin david quite remember how it all bad happened in the first place he had never been quite clear about the starting though lie he remembered he be it had ad been in the garden find it had been warm and sunny and a little breeze was blowing and then wind geos air pilot had blown him right into the geography book he was sup posed to be studying and it had bad all come to life something like a great toy world then he had begun adaven turing just after he be had met compass who rho lind told him how much attracted he was by the earth and how he kept his hend bead to the north and his feet to the south and his arms east and west wesl still it was mysterious how it all had bad happened it wits was about the same time ot of the year now but it was not so warm and it was raining A slow steady rain bad made david think of 0 the attic he thought he would go up there to study and now he had bad come 11 up p 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 the eastern hemisphere before him he decided it would be tun fun it if he sat at the top of the little flight of stairs stair and looked out to see it if the rain was letting up at all he opened the door at the top of the stairs and looked out it still was raining hard the root roof looked very T smooth and glistening but he noticed tice 1 I something he had never noticed before there were lines on the root roof some wont went up and down it and others across from side to side lie he wondered why he be lind had never noticed this athla before when he be had been up here so many many times certainly they must have been here they were so clearly in marked a r k e d friendly old surely they had attic bee been there a long time and then all of a sudden he be no tired a little creature sitting on the lines that were opre going up and down and another little creature just like the first one sitting fitting on the lines that were going across there was something very familiar about their looks then he knew they were the twins latitude and longitude I 1 |